Micron

Micron Technologies, the only maker of semiconductor memory chips based in the US was founded and incorporated in 1978. After becoming a publicly held company in June of 1984 selling 2.2 million shares of common stock at an initial price of $14 per share; the company has grown by leaps and bounds. Today, it has established itself as one of the top suppliers of semiconductor memory products in the world and has grown to have more than 18,000 employees, including …

…Technologies, and they will be the first suppliers of this new memory. Today Micron is the leading supplier of DRAM to the world's computer makers, but faced with the recent downturn in the industry and losing money, the materialization of a better technology by another large competitor may be enough to unseat Micron on the table of the international memory suppliers. Information Sources Micron Website: http://www.micron.com/ Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/