Micron to cut staff by 15 percent
Micron and Intel plan to shut down their joint production of NAND flash memory from a Boise, Idaho, facility, and Micron plans to lay off about 15 percent of its workforce in another sign that the...
View ArticleMicron boosts NAND flash endurance six-fold
Flash memory maker Micron today said that it has been able to boost the write endurance of its multi-level cell and single-level cell NAND flash chips by as much as six times.read more
View ArticleIt's a DRAM shame: Oracle sues Micron, alleges chip price fixing
Picking up where Sun Microsystems left off, Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) filed a lawsuit last Friday against Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU), alleging that the chip maker conspired with other computer...
View ArticleMicron misses revenue, earnings targets
Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) on Wednesday announced fiscal 2011 first-quarter results that showed profitability and revenue growth, but missed Wall Street estimates. read more
View ArticleIntel and Micron open joint NAND flash fab ahead of schedule
Intel and Micron Technology opened a $3 billion factory to make NAND flash memory in Singapore on Thursday, Intel officials said.read more
View ArticleMicron unveils its first entry-level SSD for blade servers
Micron today released its first entry-level solid state drive to be used as a boot drive in servers or for I/O intensive read applications, such as video streaming in cloud computing environments.read...
View ArticleMicron CEO Steve Appleton killed in small-plane crash
Micron Technology chief executive Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash in Boise, Idaho, early Friday.read more
View ArticleMicron names new CEO in wake of Steve Appleton's death in plane crash
Less that two weeks ago, Micron COO Mark Durcan was planning to retire from the company in August. Now, following the death of chief executive Steve Appleton in a plane crash, Durcan is Micron's new...
View ArticleIntel sells flash factories to Micron for $600M
Intel is selling its two NAND flash manufacturing facilities to Micron as part of an expansion to an already existing partnership between the two firms.read more
View ArticleMicron releases first 2.5-in PCIe SSD
Micron this week announced the first PCIe SSD in a 2.5-in hard drive form factor.read more
View ArticleMicron unveils its first 1TB SSD -- for under $600
Micron on Thursday unveiled its first terabyte-sized solid-state drive (SSD) for consumers, the Crucial M500, which will sell for under $600, or 60 cents per gigabyte.read more
View ArticleMicron introduces its highest-endurance SSD for servers
Micron today announced it's highest endurance SSD for servers, the P400m, boasting the ability to fill a 400GB drive 10 times a day for five years.read more
View ArticleThe Hynix fire and memory prices: What you need to know
It's hard to gauge the impact of the fire at Hynix's plant in China because the company has been so mum on details. So everyone is operating on speculation, which can be both dangerous and...
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