About Us - Schiltron_New_Test

Founder and CEO

Andrew J. Walker is a 30-year-plus veteran of the semiconductor industry. He was with Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands from 1985 to 1994 where he worked on CMOS and non-volatile memory research and development. Since 1994, he has worked for several Silicon Valley companies including Cypress Semiconductor, Artisan Components and Matrix Semiconductor. He has been involved with 3-D Flash memory technology since 2000 and founded Schiltron Corporation to investigate and develop new 3-D Flash technologies. He has published in all areas of silicon device physics and technology with 3-D thin-film transistor-based Flash memory being the focus since 2003. He has about fifty US patents to his name.

Andrew received the B.Sc. degree (with honors) in physics from the University of Dundee, Scotland and the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He is a member of the IEEE and the Institute of Physics, London.

Investors

-  Cypress Semiconductor
-  Two private investors