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Micron to buy Intel's stake in IM Flash Technologies
Published in PC Hardware


It will save everyone of us

Micron is planning to take full control of IM Flash Technologies joint venture with Chipzilla.

Micron spends $3 billion expanding its semiconductor plant
Published in News


Demand for memory still exceeding supply

Micron has announced a $3 billion plan to expand its semiconductor plant in Virginia and has promised to create more than 1,100 new jobs in the area over the next ten years.

China ban a foul claims Micron
Published in News
Friday, 06 July 2018 11:39

China ban a foul claims Micron


But it should not do too much harm

Micron played down the likely impact on its business of a temporary Chinese ban on some chip sales but said it was unfair and would appeal.

Micron temporarily banned in China
Published in News
Wednesday, 04 July 2018 11:11

Micron temporarily banned in China


UMC patent war to blame

A Chinese court temporarily banned Micron in China as part of its patent war with Taiwanese rival United Microelectronics.

Micron starts GDDDR6 DRAM chip volume production
Published in PC Hardware


In 8GB capacities

Micron has started volume production of its GDDDR6 DRAM chip.

Micron sees life in the memory industry
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 20 June 2018 11:39

Micron sees life in the memory industry


Things are looking up

Micron claims to have overcome key DRAM and Flash memory problems and says the industry is looking rather good.

Micron talks 20Gbps GDDR6 memory
Published in Graphics
Monday, 04 June 2018 11:24

Micron talks 20Gbps GDDR6 memory


With a slight voltage bump

It appears that Micron will easily extend from its JEDEC 14Gbps transfer speed as, according to Micron, it can hit as high as 20Gbps with a slight voltage bump.

Qualcomm’s Raj Taluri goes to Micron
Published in IoT
Monday, 09 April 2018 22:33

Qualcomm’s Raj Taluri goes to Micron


SVP and GM Mobile BU

A key member of the Qualcomm team in charge of the IoT, has started working at Micron. He got a saucy offer and left to Micron to be SVP and GM of Mobile Business Unit.

Intel mulls Chinese date after Micron divorce
Published in News


96-layer 3D-NAND flash plans

After Chipzilla and Micron have agreed to start seeing other people after finishing the development of 96-layer 3D-NAND flash, it is looking like Intel wants a hot Chinese partnership.

AMD hires ex-Nvidia man + 1 to replace Raja Koduri
Published in Graphics


Rayfield runs the RTG, David Wang engineering

Before anyone jumps the gun claiming that Mike Rayfield, the newly promoted Senior Vice President and General Manager of AMD Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) is ex Micron, we wanted to point out that he used to run Tegra for Nvidia before. The man who will replace Raja Koduri’s engineering talents comes from ATI and Synaptics. David Wang is now Senior Vice President of Engineering at RTG.