We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Appleton, Micron Chairman and CEO, passed away this morning in a small plane accident in Boise. He was 51. Our hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children and his family during this tragic time. Steve’s passion and energy left an indelible mark on Micron, the [...]
When you’ve invested a lot of hours and hard work into developing a new technology, it’s rewarding when your labors get noticed. That’s why we were especially excited when our Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) received some really BIG attention, The Linley Group’s Analysts’ Choice Award for “Best Technology of 2011.” [...]
The Consumer Electronics Show is a great place to pick up on technology trends; this year, everyone was talking about mobile devices and streaming content from the cloud. We’ve been fielding questions about the cloud for a while from people who assume it will mean a smaller memory market as smartphones and tablets scale back [...]
One of our existing NAND customers, Maryland-based Data Design Corporation, specializes in custom electronic designs for national laboratories, defense, and industrial applications. Their engineers had a great idea for a custom PCIe storage device. But they had a problem—standard NAND ECC requirements have been changing with each generation resulting in expensive reengineering of the NAND [...]
At Micron we’re always working on new memory device designs that improve performance. Right now we’re involved in a project with our JEDEC partners to standardize a new DRAM interface and die-stacking technology called three-dimensional stacking, or 3DS. The idea behind 3DS is to use specially designed and manufactured master-and-slave DRAM die, with only the [...]
A terabit in a single NAND package—that’s what our latest NAND will deliver. I think a lot of people have a hard time understanding how these numbers relate to the real world, though. Our new 128Gb 20nm device can store a terabit of data in a single package of just 8 die, but what does [...]
Micron Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton recently accepted the Semiconductor Industry Association’s highest honor—the Robert N. Noyce Award. Steve was recognized as “a champion of the semiconductor industry” for his tireless efforts to strengthen the industry and for his sustained, successful leadership in the highly competitive memory business. In a Micron interview, Steve shares his [...]
It’s true that the SSD market puts a lot of emphasis on bigger, faster, better—the largest capacity, the highest IOPs, the highest endurance. But it’s not only about the latest, greatest, pegging-out-the-performance-curve product. Sometimes, it’s simply about doing key things well, over and over again. Dallas, Texas-based SoftLayer Technologies—the world’s largest privately owned hosting company—needed [...]
Micron Technology and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Collaborate to Make Revolutionary HMC Technology Generally Available You’ve probably heard that Micron and Samsung are collaborating to create the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) Consortium, with the goal of defining an industry-adoptable HMC interface, thus facilitating HMC’s integration into a wide variety of technologies. I sat down with [...]
Micron’s Vice President of Embedded Solutions, Tom Eby, delivered his keynote address this morning, saying embedded memory is poised for exponential growth…and that Micron is poised to take advantage of that. “It’s estimated that 40 exabytes of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year,” said Eby. “That’s more than in the previous 5,000 [...]
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