Mark Ramsbey
Outstanding Alumni Award 2012
- 1983 B.S., Physics, Purdue University
- 1990 Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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.