Micron Technology

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Micron Technology Inc.

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legal form Corporation
ISIN US5951121038
founding 1978
Seat Boise , Idaho , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Sanjay Mehrotra (CEO)
Number of employees 30,400
sales 30,390,000,000 US dollars
Branch semiconductor
Website www.micron.com
As of June 15, 2018

Micron Technology Inc. is a technology company headquartered in Boise , Idaho , USA , and is one of the five largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world. Micron mainly manufactures memory elements for computers . Micron Technology is listed on the NYSE in the NASDAQ index and has approximately 26,000 employees. In the 2014 financial year, net sales of US $ 16.3 billion were achieved. In the Forbes Global 2000 of the world's largest companies, Micron ranks 221 (as of fiscal year 2017). The company had a market value of over USD 60 billion in mid-2018.

Micron has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Italy, Singapore, and Japan. Today Micron is the only DRAM manufacturer in the United States.

Direct sales to end customers have been carried out under the name Crucial or Crucial Technology since 1996 , and flash memory, such as B. USB sticks , until 2017 under Lexar .

history

Micron was founded in Boise, Idaho in 1978 by Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Dennis Wilson, and Doug Pitman. The startup was financed by local investors Tom Nicholson, Allen Noble and Ron Yanke. Further expansion was financed by John Simplot .

In 1981 Micron first produced DRAM chips with a storage capacity of 64 Kbits. By consistently controlling costs, Micron survived several downturns in the DRAM market, which forced important competitors to exit the market. Even Intel , the inventor of DRAM, was forced to abandon this business area in 1985.

In 1994, co-founder Joe Parkinson resigned as CEO and Steve Appleton took over management of the company until his accidental death on February 3, 2012. Interim successor is Mark Durcan.

In the early 1990s, the subsidiary Micron Computers (today: Micron Electronics) was founded as a manufacturer of PCs. In 1999, another subsidiary, Micron Internet Services, was added to bundle Internet activities. Both divisions were sold to web.com and MPC in 2001.

Micron acquired memory production from Texas Instruments in 1998 and Toshiba in 2001 .

In 2005, Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc agreed to collaborate to manufacture flash memory called IM Flash Technologies, LLC, and in 2006 they built a joint facility in Singapore .

In 2006, Micron acquired Lexar , a manufacturer of flash memory .

In 2015, Micron and Intel agreed another joint venture , 3D XPoint, for the development and manufacture of non-volatile memory technology .

Micron acquired Tidal Systems in 2015 , and in 2016 completely acquired the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer Inotera Memories, Inc. from Nanya Technology .

Micron was the world market leader in the field of CMOS image sensors (2006). Aptina Imaging emerged from Micron Imaging in 2008 and was sold to ON Semiconductor in 2014 .

Since April 2017, Sanjay Mehrotra has been the new President and CEO at Micron.

In mid-2017, the Lexar brand was sold to the Chinese company Longsys.

Key figures
year Sales
in US $ million 		Balance sheet profit
in million US $ 		Price per share
in US $ 		Employees
2005 4,880 188 11.63
2006 5,272 408 15.48
2007 5,688 −320 11.39
2008 5,841 −1,655 5.59
2009 4,803 −1,882 5.86
2010 8,482 1,850 8.64
2011 8,788 167 8.15
2012 8,234 −1.032 6.65
2013 9,073 1,190 13.40 30,900
2014 16,358 3,045 29.20 30,400
2015 16,192 2,899 22.32 31,800
2016 12,399 −276 14.16 31,400
2017 20,322 5,089 32.12 34,100
2018 30,391 14,135 50.26 36,000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Form 10-K 2014
  2. ↑ Micron Technology: Micron Technology, Inc., Reports Results for the Fourth Quarter and 2014 Fiscal Year ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / investors.micron.com
  3. ^ Semiconductor market 2014 elektroniknet.de accessed on April 4, 2015
  4. ^ The World's Largest Public Companies . In: Forbes . ( forbes.com [accessed July 17, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash. In: Berliner Morgenpost from February 3, 2012
  6. ↑ Micron says Mark Durcan to take CEO duties for now. finanzen.ch of February 4, 2012
  7. ↑ https://www.anandtech.com/show/10899/micron-completes-acquisition-of-inotera-memories
  8. ↑ ON Semiconductor buys Aptina Imaging for $ 400 million. In: azcentral.com. June 9, 2014, accessed September 27, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Longsys Acquires Lexar Brand, a Leading Brand for High-Performance Removable Storage Solutions press release of Longsys
  10. ↑ Lexar is now part of Longsys Heise Online from September 1, 2017
  11. ↑ Micron Technology Revenue 2006-2018 | MU. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .

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