Paper Title: SD Express: Combining the Reliability of SD Cards with PCIe/NVMe

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Paper Author: Yosi Pinto, Chairman, SD Association

Author Bio: Yosi Pinto is Director of Standards at Western Digital (formerly SanDisk),and also serves as the Chairman of the Board and the Technical Committee Co-Chair at the SD Card Association (SDA). Mr. Pinto has played a major role in SD Card standards since they were first introduced in 1999. He developed the first SD card controllers, led the Memory Stick project, and was responsible for other SD/eMMC products and standards initiatives at SanDisk, JEDEC, and SDA. He holds more than 30 patents related to memory card technology, including many that are fundamental to the SD technology. He holds an MSEE from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.