Yasuo Naruke — HoF: For maintaining NAND memory market competitiveness by ensuring successful creation of the independent Toshiba Memory Corporation
- Financial failure of Toshiba could have had major impact on NAND flash market, taking out both Toshiba and Western Digital
- Naruke-san weathered many dark days where in its final throes deals came close and then fell apart
- This success caps many great accomplishments over Naruke-san's career that have worked to keep Japan’s chip industry in a leadership position