Dr. Mark Ramsbey, 2012 Outstanding Alumni
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Mark Ramsbey graduated from Purdue University in 1983 with a B.S. in Honors Physics and from the University of Illinois in
1990 with a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics. In 1990 he joined Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as a wafer fab rotation
engineer working in the Submicron Development Center in Sunnyvale, CA. In 1999 he was responsible for AMD’s first process
flow for nitride storage based Flash memory and led the process integration groups for the first four generations of
Mirror BitTM Flash memory, work which resulted in over 100 patents. By 2006 Mark was a director and AMD had spun off its
Flash memory division as a separate company named Spansion where he currently works. Mark and his wife Mai live in
Sunnyvale, California.
Department of Physics