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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 memory modules, are marketed under the Crucial brand.
Steven R. Appleton (March 31, 1960 – February 3, 2012) was an American business executive, the CEO of Micron Technology, based in Boise, Idaho. [1]Born and raised in Southern California, Appleton attended Boise State University and played tennis for the Broncos. [2]
1978: Micron Technology Inc. is founded. 1980: Ground is broken on Micron’s first wafer-fabrication plant on Federal Way. 1981: Micron ships its first 64K DRAM.
MPC Computers (originally named Micron Electronics Inc.) was founded privately in Nampa, Idaho in 1995 through a merger of ZEOS International, Micron Computer, and Micron Custom Manufacturing. [4] From 1995 to 2001, Micron Electronics Inc. sold consumer and business computers under the names Micron, MicronPC, and MicronPC.com.
If the company were to construct the plant in Idaho, it would represent a return of sorts to the days Micron manufactured chips on its Boise campus. Micron ended manufacturing in Boise in 2009 and ...
Micron used to make chips in Boise, where the company was founded, but halted manufacturing operations in 2009 and ramped up production at other fabs, mainly abroad.
During his time at J.R. Simplot Company, Simplot has been credited with engineering the company's lucrative early-stage investment in Micron Technology, which grew to 22-percent of that company by 1996. He is also responsible for the company's 2003 purchase of the Australian arm of John West Foods.
Micron’s investment will create over 17,000 new American jobs, and approximately 2,000 of them will be in Boise. Micron could become the biggest private employer in the Boise area with new expansion