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Micron was founded in Boise, Idaho, in 1978 [6] by Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Dennis Wilson, and Doug Pitman as a semiconductor design consulting company. [7] Startup funding was provided by local Idaho businessmen Tom Nicholson, Allen Noble, Rudolph Nelson, and Ron Yanke.
The company has received several notable recognitions and awards for its technological advancements. In 2021, the company's "personalized skin on demand" technology, developed in collaboration with CUTISS AG, received the 3rd prize in the "Delivered Impact" category at the EARTO Innovation Awards. [ 21 ]
Microtechnology's most famous success is the integrated circuit. It has also been used to construct micromachinery . As an offshoot of researchers attempting to further miniaturize microtechnology, nanotechnology emerged in the 1980s, particularly after the invention of new microscopy techniques. [ 4 ]
The company went into volume production with the wafer bonder in 1980 in the U.S. in Waterbury/Vermont. [3] Suss Microtec developed the first substrate bonder in 1989. In microsystems technology, substrate bonders allowed heterogeneous materials to be bonded with structured surfaces. In 1993, the company added device bonders to its product line.
Cirrus Logic acquires audio chip company Tripath after they went bankrupt. 2012 – Company sells its hybrid product line in Tucson, Ariz., to a group of investors, creating Apex Microtechnology as a stand-alone company once again. In November, the company announces that it is moving its remaining product line team in Tucson to its Austin ...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC; Chinese: 聯華電子; pinyin: Liánhuá Diànzǐ) is a Taiwanese company based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It was founded as Taiwan's first semiconductor company in 1980 as a spin-off of the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). [4]
The company collaborated with STMicroelectronics to establish a 180 nm process in 2007, with plans to begin mass production the next year. [ 7 ] In 2010, Mikron obtained a license for a 90 nm process, with production starting around 2012–2013.
Microchip Technology was founded in 1987 when General Instrument spun off its microelectronics division as a wholly owned subsidiary. [5] [6] The newly formed company was a supplier of programmable non-volatile memory, microcontrollers, digital signal processors, card chip on board, and consumer integrated circuits.