Micron Technology, Inc. is one of the world's leading suppliers of advanced semiconductor solutions. Through global operations, Micron manufactures and brings to market DRAM, NAND flash memory, CMOS image sensors, other semiconductor components, and memory modules for leading-edge computing, consumer goods, networking, and mobile portable products.
Micron Technology: Located in Boise, Idaho, USA, Micron Technology was founded in 1978 by Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Dennis Wilson and Doug Pitman, and established its own wafer fab in 1981.
Micron Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Micron Technology) is one of the world's largest manufacturers of semiconductor storage and imaging products, its main products include DRAM, NAND flash memory and CMOS image sensors. Micron Technology Advanced products are widely used in mobile, computer, service, automotive, network, security, industrial, consumer and medical fields, providing customers with targeted solutions in these diversified terminal applications.
In 1978, Micron Technology Co., Ltd. was established; Micron has a global presence and employs <>,<> permanent employees worldwide, including <>,<> in Asia. In China, Micron Technology has set up a marketing office and an integrated circuit design center in Shanghai; Set up marketing offices in Beijing and Shenzhen, committed to providing high-level services to customers in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Fujian and other provinces and cities.
From 1998 to 2002, Sun Microsystems purchased $20 billion worth of DRAM memory chips.
In September 2005, after a comprehensive inspection of more than 9 cities in China, Micron finally decided to locate in Xi'an to build Micron's semiconductor factory in China, which includes two parts: chip module assembly and chip packaging and testing, with a total investment of 10 million US dollars, an export value of more than 2 million US dollars, and more than 5,5 jobs.
On March 2007, 3, Micron was inaugurated in Xi'an High-tech Zone, which is a wholly foreign-owned enterprise and one of the largest foreign-invested enterprises in Shaanxi Province. The plant will focus on testing and packaging Micron Technologies' semiconductor products.
In September 2010, Oracle filed a lawsuit against Micron, a U.S. memory chip maker, alleging price control on computer memory chips, a continuation of Sun's lawsuit against Micron.
On May 2018, 5, China's antitrust authorities launched a surprise investigation into the offices of Samsung, Hynix, and Micron in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, and the three giants' behavior that hindered fair competition and reports from some companies prompted the Chinese antitrust authorities to launch the investigation.
According to the financial report statistics of Micron, Samsung and Hynix, in fiscal 2017, the semiconductor business revenue of the three companies in China was 103.88 billion US dollars, 253.86 billion US dollars, 89.08 billion US dollars, a total of 446.8 billion US dollars, an increase of 2016.321% compared with 39.16 billion US dollars in fiscal <>.
On July 2018, 7, the Fuzhou Intermediate Court ruled to issue a "lawsuit injunction" to the US chip giant Micron, and some US flash SSDs and memory stick DRAM will be temporarily banned from sale in China.