Is magnetic memory for real?

Electronic News,  Oct 27, 1997  by Gale Morrison

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Oleg Tchernoukhin, Dr. Gendlin's interpreter and business manager, said one of Dr. Gendlin's companies, Compu-Technics, will sell a prototype 3-inch module, that can be "stitched" together as is done with other flat panels, for about $400. As of last week, he was looking into obtaining booth space at this fall's Comdex in Las Vegas.

Dr. Gendlin's holding companies, SVG Israel New Technology, Ltd., of which he is president, and Compu-Technics, of which he is chairman of the board, are based in Westbury, Long Island. The companies' nascent marketing plans include producing the memory chips on fab lines in Israel and Hungary and selling them to OEMs worldwide, but they are "very open" and "flexible," Mr. Tchernourkhin said. Dr. Gendlin said there is another patent pending, one filed in Sept. 1996, that he filed himself and which gives him further rights.

The initials SVG are Dr. Gendlin's and the company bears no relation to Silicon Valley Group, the capital equipment maker.

From the foundation of his doctorates in Nuclear Physics and Computer Science (Physical Electronics) from universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, Dr. Gendlin emigrated to Israel in 1990 and began work at Kappa Numerics. Dr. Prinz said Russian academe and industry kept up magnetic memory research long after the U.S., and in fact much of the world's expertise came from there.

Here again, Dr. Gendlin's testimony takes another turn. He said Kappa Numerics sells its work exclusively to Intel.

In fact, Dr. Gendlin told EN, that not only was he the researcher behind Intel's new "StrataFlash" two-bit per cell memories because he worked on that at Kappa, but that in 1993 he showed Intel worldwide manufacturing VP Mike Splinter his work on Quantum and "Intel wanted it." Over what Kappa Numerics intended to do with the memory science, Dr. Gendlin and Kappa "divorced," he said, and a breach of contract suit began, which culminated in the injunction.

Through a spokesman, Intel Israel head of operations Dov Froman said he had not heard of Kappa Numerics and Mr. Splinter said Intel has "no relationship" with the company. Beyond that, the spokesman said, Intel did not "see the value in getting involved" with Dr. Gendlin's testimony.

Dr. Gendlin said he also demonstrated the work to engineers at Philips Electronics in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Dr. Prinz said that Philips had one of the finest magnetic memory research groups in the world, but "a year ago they shut it down. The researchers pretty much dispersed, there's maybe one left."

Still, Kappa Numerics believes it holds the rights to Dr. Gendlin's work. "Anything related to what Shimon Gendlin talked to you about, in all probability that is Kappa (Numerics) technology . . . Shimon Gendlin is not permitted to do anything with our technology," Irwin Rosenthal, who is "a senior partner in a major law firm" and a "principal" in Kappa Numerics said emphatically.