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Micron Technology
Micron Technology, Inc. is an American producer of computer memory and computer data storage including dynamic random-access memory, flash memory, and solid-state drives (SSDs). It is headquartered in Boise, Idaho. Micron's consumer products, including the Ballistix line of consumer and gaming memory modules, are marketed under the Crucial brand. Micron and Intel together created IM Flash Technologies, which produced NAND flash memory. It owned Lexar between 2006 and 2017. Micron is the only U.S.-based manufacturer of memory. History 1978–1999 Micron was founded in Boise, Idaho, in 1978 by Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Dennis Wilson, and Doug Pitman as a semiconductor design consulting company. Startup funding was provided by local Idaho businessmen Tom Nicholson, Allen Noble, Rudolph Nelson, and Ron Yanke. Later it received funding from Idaho billionaire J. R. Simplot, whose fortune was made in the potato business. In 1981, the company moved from consulting to manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikron Group
Mikron Group (), headed by Joint-stock company, JSC Mikron (Russian: АО "Микрон"), is the leading developer, manufacturer and exporter of microelectronics in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS. Its main manufacturing facilities are located in Zelenograd, Russia. Other production facilities of the group are located in St.Petersburg and Voronezh. Part of thElementconglomerate. History The plant was launched under the auspices of NIIME (Scientific and research institute of molecular electronics) in Zelenograd, in the outskirts of Moscow, in a Soviet Union, Soviet attempt to keep up with the rapidly developing Western microelectronics. By 1966 it delivered around 100'000 units per year falling short of the rising demand from the military, scientific and civil customers. By 1970 the plant, now having its own brand name Mikron, was radically expanded and separated from NIISE, to deliver over 3.5 million units a year. Being involved in Soviet space program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |