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Micron hints at DRAM downturn
News Demand for DRAMs, the basic building blocks for memory used in PCs, could be drastically down in the coming months, according to leading manufacturer Micron Technology. Steve Appleton, chief executive, president and chairman of Micron, one of the...
[March 13, 2001, 11:38]
Micron module promises to boost server memory
News Micron Technology has introduced a new DDR3 memory module that it said will significantly increase the memory capacity of server motherboards. The Micron LRDIMM means companies are no longer tied to the standard 2GB of memory per motherboard slot...
[August 5, 2009, 15:29]
Micron ponders next move in delayed Rambus trial
News The postponement of Micron Technology's patent trial against memory design startup Rambus could allow Micron to avoid a trial altogether. Rambus claims that technology used in common memory standards such as SDRAM violates its patents, and is...
[May 23, 2001, 17:26]
Micron to build Athlon-based PCs
News Micron Electronics Tuesday announced plans to add AMD's Athlon chip to a line of business PCs. Many PC makers offer Advanced Micro Devices' low-cost Athlon chip in consumer lines, but Micron Electronics is the first well-known North American...
[January 3, 2001, 7:36]
Micron shows off DDR PIII chipset
News At the Intel Developer Forum this week, Micron Technology is demonstrating its prototype chipset for Pentium III servers using DDR SDRAM memory, a high-speed memory standard going head-to-head with the more expensive Rambus RDRAM championed by Intel.
[February 27, 2001, 13:10]
Micron pumps up DDR2 memory production
News Micron Technology revealed on Monday that it has begun producing large numbers of DDR2 chips, a new generation of memory for computers. The semiconductor manufacturer is now assembling DDR2 chips into memory modules, Micron executives said on Friday.
[December 8, 2003, 14:45]
Micron withdraws from the SRAM market
News Micron Technology has decided to move away from the static RAM business. Micron has been through several rocky years as a result of the economic and PC market downturns that began in late 2000. As part of its exit strategy, Micron will sell its...
[April 10, 2003, 14:49]
Micron misses 2Q estimates as DRAM prices slide
News Micron Technology fell short of analysts' second quarter estimates, but said it sees a strong rebound in the current quarter. Fiscal Q2 was a challenging one for Micron from the standpoint of managing demand from our customers," said Michael Sadler...
[March 22, 2000, 13:33]
Micron unveils server-grade SSDs
News Micron Technology has announced two new lines of solid-state drives, one of which could offer huge performance and power-management benefits in servers, according to the company. According to Micron, the drives also offer a mean time between...
[August 5, 2008, 13:06]
Pre-emptive strike: Micron sues Rambus
News Mindful that the best defence is often a good offence, Micron Technology has filed suit against Rambus, slapping the litigious firm with an antitrust suit of its own. Micron argues that Rambus violated antitrust laws by applying for patents on...
[August 30, 2000, 9:18]
Micron leads chip-stock revival
News Micron Technology shares charged up 13 3/16, or 11 percent, to 128 Wednesday after a pair of brokerage firms upgraded the chipmaker. All this enthusiasm comes less than three weeks after Micron missed Street estimates by 16 cents a share in its...
[April 6, 2000, 12:45]
Micron shows first DDR-II memory demo
News Memory manufacturer Micron this week demonstrated the first system running DDR-II SDRAM to press and analysts. Micron was not the first company to produce DDR-II memory -- Samsung said at the end of May that it had produced 512Mb DDR-II SDRAM...
[July 11, 2002, 15:44]
Micron to trim work force 10 percent
News Memory chipmaker Micron Technology announced plans on Tuesday to cut approximately 10 percent of its staff amid a sluggish technology market. Micron was launched in 1978 and has become one of the two largest memory makers in the world, along with...
[February 19, 2003, 16:59]
The Day Ahead: Micron Technology's outlook may ease fall
News Welcome to the wonderful world of Micron Technology, where great quarters are never as great as they seem and hideous quarters aren't as bad. You'd think the sky would fall on memory giant Micron today, since the company missed First Call consensus...
[March 22, 2000, 12:11]
Micron, Intel move to 34nm Nand flash
News Intel and Micron Technology are moving to mass production of their jointly developed Nand flash memory chips that use 34nm (nanometre) technology. A single 32Gb chip could hold up to 1,000 songs, or more than 2,000 high-resolution photos, according...
[November 26, 2008, 12:35]
Micron Electronics doubles Q4 estimates
News Micron Electronics stormed past analysts' estimates in its fourth quarter Monday, raking in $13.7m (£8.5m), or 14 cents a share, on sales of $333m. In the quarter, Micron Electronics' gross profit margins jumped from 15.5 percent in the third...
[September 28, 1999, 9:13]
Compaq, Micron deal heating up
News Earlier this spring, the two companies discussed a sale of Micron's division, Micron Electronics Inc.which sells computers via mail order. Micron, based in Idaho, US, has actively shopped the unit around, according to the sources, and at various...
[June 2, 1997, 11:31]
Intel, Micron push chip tech for USB drives
News Intel and Micron Technology on Tuesday announced the development of a new chip technology for use in flash cards and USB drives. In a statement, Brian Shirley, vice president of Micron's memory group, said: "We see 3bpc Nand technology as an...
[August 12, 2009, 9:21]
Intel 0.25-micron mobile MMX chips due next Monday
News The parts - formerly known by the Tillamook codename - will be the first to be based on the chip giant's state-of-the-art 0.25-micron process fabrication facility which allows smaller, cooler, more efficient power-saving and faster processors to...
[September 1, 1997, 10:46]
Cyrix 6x86MX .25 micron first for Nat Semi plant
News Cyrix is upping the stakes in the increasingly competitive semiconductor market after announcing that it will start volume production of its 6x86MX processor on .25 micron processing technology this summer at the National Semiconductor plant in...
[January 13, 1998, 15:47]
