Toshiba ordered the inventor of flash memory to discontinue it — he refused

Fujio Masuoka invented the technology now running in nearly every phone, SSD, and USB drive on Earth. His bosses at Toshiba told him to erase the idea, so he presented it anyway, and watched his own company hand the profits to Intel instead.

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