Title
Harari (Eli) oral history
Catalog Number
102702799
Type
Moving image
Description
This interview with Eli Harari describes his early background, growing up in Israel after WWII and education at Cambridge in England. He came to the US, received a Physics degree from Princeton, having done research into failure modes of semiconductors in outer space. He took this knowledge to Hughes Aircraft where he played a lead role in the development of the first EEPROM. With this background, he was then recruited to work at Intel. The interview covers his subsequent move to Synertek, and his founding of two startups: Wafer Scale Integration and San Disk, including lessons learned from failures and triumphs of each. The most notable of the latter was the development of System Flash. Mr. Harari describes how they took a fundamentally limited-life technology, EEPROM, and turned it into a revolutionary storage technology which has fueled the mobile revolution over the past 20 years. During that time, SanDisk grew the complexity of their chips from 4 megabits to 64 gigabits and reduced the cost by 30,000x.
Date
2011-06-15
Participants
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Alexy, George, Interviewer
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Dennis, Eric, Videographer
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Harari, Eli, Interviewee
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Porter, Jim, Interviewer
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Duration
1:16:13
Format
MOV
Copyright Holder
Computer History Museum
Category
Oral history
Subject
semiconductor history; Storage history; erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM); EEPROM; Flash; Hughes Aircraft; SiO2; SunDisk; SanDisk; NAND-flash; Moore's Law; CCD; Compact Flash (CF); SD; MicroSD; Kodak; Toshiba Corporation; SEEQ Technology, Inc.; Nordheim; Frohman
Collection Title
Oral history collection
