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Micron Technology, Inc. is an American multinational semiconductor company that manufactures computer memory and computer data storage products, including dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), flash memory, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), and solid-state drives (SSDs). Founded in 1978 in Boise, Idaho, Micron is the only major American computer memory manufacturer. It is one of the Big Three computer memory manufacturers, together with the South Korean companies Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.

Wikidata Q1197548: HQ Boise, founded 1978-10-01, employees 48000, revenue 30758000000, net profit 8687000000, ISIN US5951121038, LEI B3DXGBC8GAIYWI2Z0172, CIK 0000723125, ISNI 0000000093018162, ROR 02fv52296, GRID grid.434172.7, EU-TR 081018746995-58, Twitter:microntech, Facebook:MicronTechUSA, LinkedIn:micron-technology, Crunchbase:micron-technology. Subsidiaries: Numonyx, Elpida/MMJ, Micron Japan, Displaytech, Micron Singapore. Owns Crucial. Member: S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Linux Foundation.

Wikidata entities with parent Q1197548 (subsidiary_of / child org): Displaytech Incorporated (Q30253607, US), Numonyx (Q673595, Switzerland), Micron Memory Japan (Q21099505), Elpida Memory (Q1192687, Japan), Micron Singapore (Q30338131, Singapore), Micron Japan (Q29000348, Japan).

Companies House search 'Micron Europe Limited': company number 02341071, status active, date of creation 1989-01-30, type ltd, address Venture House 2 Arlington Square, Downshire Way, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 1WA, England. Previous name snippet: MICRON TECHNOLOGY (U.K.) LIMITED.

Companies House 02341071: MICRON EUROPE LIMITED, active, england-wales, SIC 32990, incorporated 1989-01-30. Previous names: MICRON TECHNOLOGY (U.K.) LIMITED (effective 1989-06-19, ceased 1992-08-18), ALNERY NO. 830 LIMITED (effective 1989-01-30, ceased 1989-06-19). Last accounts made up to 2025-08-28 (full, period 2024-08-30 to 2025-08-28). Next accounts due 2027-05-28. Confirmation statement last made up to 2025-07-19, next due 2026-08-02. No charges, no insolvency history.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation founded in 1969 and headquartered in Yeongtong District, Suwon, South Korea. It is the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue in 2012. It is majority-owned by foreign investors.

SK Hynix Inc., stylized SK hynix, is a South Korean semiconductor company that manufactures dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips and flash memory chips. SK Hynix is one of the world's largest semiconductor vendors, and along with Samsung Electronics and Micron is one of the Big Three memory manufacturers.

Micron Memory Japan, K.K. (formerly Elpida Memory, Inc.) is a Japanese subsidiary of Micron Technology. Founded 1999 as NEC Hitachi Memory by merger of Hitachi and NEC DRAM businesses. Renamed Elpida 2000. Acquired Mitsubishi DRAM business 2003. Listed TSE first section 2004. Bankrupt 2012; shares delisted. Acquired by Micron Technology 2013. Renamed Micron Memory Japan 2014 (Elpida Akita renamed Micron Akita). HQ: Yaesu, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan.

Wikidata persons with employer=Q1197548 (Micron Technology, P108): Mark Durcan (Q16249366, b.1961-04-20, business executive, former CEO), Joe Nehme (Q123173890), and numerous researchers including Seshasai Vamsi Krishna Peddinti, Harutyun Melikyan, Xue Rui, Shibesh Dutta, Gaurav Modi, Marco Valentini, Sarah L. Perry.

Sanjay Mehrotra is an Indian-American business executive and the CEO of Micron Technology. He was a co-founder of SanDisk, and its president and CEO from 2011 until its acquisition by Western Digital in 2016.

Wikidata Q20714493 (Sanjay Mehrotra): born 1958-06-27, place of birth Kanpur (Q66568), sex male, educated at UC Berkeley College of Engineering (Q7864146), occupation businessperson (Q43845), affiliation Micron Technology (Q1197548). WEF participant: Annual Meeting 2019, 2020, 2022.

Numonyx was a semiconductor company making flash memories, which was founded on March 31, 2008, by Intel Corporation, STMicroelectronics and Francisco Partners. It was acquired by Micron Technology on February 9, 2010, for US$1.27 billion.

Sandisk Corporation is an American multinational computer semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California. Co-founded by Sanjay Mehrotra (now CEO of Micron Technology). Acquired by Western Digital in 2016.

Western Digital Corporation, doing business as WD, is an American data storage company headquartered in San Jose, California. Established in 1970, one of the world's largest manufacturers of hard disk drives (HDDs). Acquired SanDisk in 2016.

Wikidata Q96631842 (Crucial): instance of brand, owned by Micron Technology (Q1197548, P127). Official website: crucial.com. Twitter handle: CrucialMemory. Instagram: crucial_memory. YouTube channel: UCeecqT-WWDnItHmekZD2M1w. Social media followers approx 32800. Intended public: consumer.

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a computer memory interface for 3D-stacked synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM), initially developed by Samsung, AMD and SK Hynix. Often used with performance-oriented graphics accelerators, network devices, FPGAs and ASICs. The first HBM memory chip was produced by SK Hynix in 2013, and the first devices shipped with HBM were the AMD Fiji GPUs in 2015.

micron.com RDAP: registered 1994-12-02, expires 2027-12-01, last changed 2025-11-27. Registrar CSC (IANA 299). NS: ns1-ns4.micron.com. DNS A: 13.107.213.72, 13.107.246.72 (Azure). MX: micron-com.mail.protection.outlook.com (O365). DMARC p=reject. MDN grade D, 8/10 pass. TXT: Adobe, Amazon, Anthropic, Atlassian (x2), Docker, Facebook, GlobalSign, Google (x5), Jamf, Miro, MongoDB, OneTrust, Palo Alto, Perplexity, Reejig, Twilio.

SPF record: v=spf1 ip4:137.201.240.8 ip4:137.201.240.9 ip4:137.201.242.129 ip4:137.201.242.130 ip4:129.35.227.8 ip4:20.83.86.188 include:spf-c1.micron.com include:mktomail.com include:ipreomail.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all

DNS TXT records: atlassian (x2), docker-verification, facebook-domain-verification, globalsign, google (x5), intersight (Cisco), jamf, miro-verification, mongodb-site-verification, onetrust, paloaltonetworks, perplexity-ai, reejig, smartsheet, twilio, anthropic, adobe-idp, amazon-business, amazonses.

DNS MX: 0 micron-com.mail.protection.outlook.com. (Office 365; single MX record)

DNS A records: 13.107.213.72 TTL 10s, 13.107.246.72 TTL 10s (both Microsoft Azure Anycast/CDN IPs). DMARC: v=DMARC1; p=reject; fo=1; rua=mailto:Micron-dmarc@micron.com; ruf=mailto:Micron-dmarc@micron.com. MDN Observatory grade D (score 30/100; 8/10 tests passed, 2 failing). CAA authorized CAs: amazon.com, letsencrypt.org, www.digicert.com; issuewild: www.digicert.com; iodef mailto:webmaster@micron.com

RDAP: micron.com registered 1994-12-02, expires 2027-12-01. Registrar: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. (IANA 299). Status: clientTransferProhibited, serverDeleteProhibited, serverTransferProhibited, serverUpdateProhibited. NS: ns1-ns4.micron.com (self-hosted nameservers). DNSSEC: not enabled (no DS delegation).

DEF 14A search Micron CIK 0000723125 (2024-2026): 2 hits. (1) adsh 0000723125-25-000038, filed 2025-11-25, for annual meeting 2026-01-15. (2) adsh 0000723125-24-000039, filed 2024-11-26, for annual meeting 2025-01-16. Total DEF 14A history: 25 filings 2001-2025.

10-K search Micron CIK 0000723125 DRAM NAND competitive market: 22 hits. Most recent: adsh 0000723125-25-000028, filed 2025-10-03, period_ending 2025-08-28 (FY2025). Prior: adsh 0000723125-24-000027, filed 2024-10-04, period_ending 2024-08-29 (FY2024).

10-Q/10-K search Micron CIK 0000723125 revenue net sales fiscal 2025-2026: Most recent 10-Q adsh 0000723125-26-000006, filed 2026-03-19, period 2026-02-26 (Q2 FY2026). Also: adsh 0000723125-25-000046 filed 2025-12-18 period 2025-11-27 (Q1 FY2026); adsh 0000723125-25-000021 filed 2025-06-26 period 2025-05-29 (Q3 FY2025); adsh 0000723125-25-000009 filed 2025-03-21 period 2025-02-27 (Q2 FY2025); adsh 0000723125-24-000047 filed 2024-12-19 period 2024-11-28 (Q1 FY2025).

Micron CIK 0000723125: entityType=operating, SIC=3674 (Semiconductors & Related Devices), EIN=751618004, exchange=Nasdaq, ticker=MU, address=8000 S Federal Way PO Box 6 Boise ID 83716-9632, phone=2083684000, stateOfIncorporation=DE, fiscalYearEnd=0903 (September), category=Large accelerated filer. No former names.

CHIPS Act search Micron CIK 2024-2026: 8-K adsh 0001104659-24-127174 filed 2024-12-10, period_ending 2024-12-09, items 1.01 (Entry into Material Definitive Agreement) + 7.01 (Regulation FD Disclosure). Score 62.28. Initial announcement of the CHIPS Act Direct Funding Agreement signing.

CHIPS Act Idaho/New York search Micron CIK 2024-2026: 10-Q adsh 0000723125-25-000009 filed 2025-03-21 period 2025-02-27 contains exhibits: EX-10.7 DIRECT FUNDING AGREEMENT (ID), EX-10.8 DIRECT FUNDING AGREEMENT (NY), EX-10.9 GUARANTEE AND EQUITY CONTRIBUTION AGREEMENT (CHIPS Micron sponsor), EX-10.1 TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT, EX-10.10 REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT, EX-10.2 2025 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN.

CHIPS Act semiconductor search Micron CIK 2024-2026: top relevance hit 8-K adsh 0001104659-25-058741 filed 2025-06-12, period 2025-06-11, items 8.01 (Other Events) + 9.01 (Exhibits); EX-99.1 press release. Score 62.89. Second CHIPS Act-related 8-K; likely fab groundbreaking or manufacturing milestone announcement.

CHIPS Act direct funding grant search Micron CIK all forms: 69 results total. FY2025 10-K (adsh 0000723125-25-000028) contains EX-10.34 AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AND EQUITY CONTRIBUTION AGREEMENT.

Samsung Electronics 20-F searches (multiple variants): No active Samsung Electronics 20-F filings found. Samsung deregistered from SEC approximately 2019. All SK Hynix searches returned HTTP 500 server errors; confirmed no US-listed securities.

DNS TXT records (full set): anthropic, perplexity-ai, paloaltonetworks, docker, jamf, mongodb, onetrust, miro, twilio, intersight (Cisco), reejig, atlassian (x2), adobe, amazon-business, amazonses, globalsign, facebook, google (x5), smartsheet; SPF -all with mktomail, ipreomail, salesforce, outlook; DMARC p=reject; A: 13.107.213.72, 13.107.246.72; MX: micron-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.

Global Perspectives 2026 (J Hart) 'The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022: Origins and Consequences': Micron broke ground for new fab in Boise, Idaho; $3.5B subsidies for fab costing $8.6B; $1.3B for Micron to expand Hiroshima DRAM fab; Micron announced up to $100B investment commitment; Micron is the only DRAM manufacturer with factories in the US; Trump March 2025 questioned CHIPS Act.

Multiple sources on China Micron ban: SNU 2024 thesis: China targeted US companies like Micron Technology by conducting cybersecurity reviews; Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) review effective from October 17, 2023; South Korea caught in US-China semiconductor competition crosshairs. Chorzempa (PIIE 2023): YMTC on entity list; US chip controls both benefit and cost Korean firms. Järvi et al. (SSRN 5796762 2025): YMTC Q1 2024 profits increased 769% YoY despite US export restrictions.

MDN Observatory scan ID 101204347, scanned 2026-06-16T06:32:50.991Z: micron.com grade=D, score=30, algorithm_version=5, tests_failed=2, tests_passed=8, tests_quantity=10, status_code=200. DNSSEC: delegationSigned=false. Domain registered 1994-12-02, expires 2027-12-01. CAA restricts cert issuance to amazon.com, letsencrypt.org, digicert.com.

Lee (CMU Kilthub 2025): Samsung replaced its semiconductor chief May 2024 due to HBM quality crisis — unable to meet NVIDIA HBM3E qualification requirements for H200 GPUs. Wong/Yeung/Huang/Song/Lee: Samsung catching up in 1990s DRAM enabled by initial licensing of 64K DRAM technology from Micron Technology. Jeong (KIEP/SSRN 5898082 2025): South Korea HBM competitiveness — Micron TSI reaching Samsung-comparable levels.

Fueled by a nearly 50% surge in HBM sales in Q3 FY2025, Micron posted record revenue and targets 24% HBM market share by year-end 2025, scaling supply to four major GPU/ASIC clients. (TrendForce, Jun 26, 2025)

Micron Technology will exit its consumer business, doubling down on advanced memory chips used in artificial intelligence. (Reuters, Dec 3, 2025)

Micron Technology will delay opening its first two chipmaking factories in Clay, New York by two to three years. (Syracuse.com, Nov 7, 2025)

SK Hynix Q2 2025 record: revenue +35% YoY, operating profit +69% YoY, driven by AI memory demand. (CNBC, Jul 24, 2025)

SK Hynix, critical Nvidia supplier, has already sold out HBM chips for all of 2026 as AI demand booms. Record Q3 2025 results. (CNBC, Oct 28, 2025)

NVIDIA reportedly drives 27% of SK Hynix revenue in H1 2025, cementing the AI chip partnership. (TrendForce, Aug 18, 2025)

HBM4 mass production delayed to end of Q1 2026 by NVIDIA spec upgrades and Rubin platform strategy adjustments made in Q3 2025. (TrendForce, Jan 8, 2026)

Samsung Electronics started shipping HBM4 chips to unnamed customers, trying to narrow the gap in the HBM market. (Reuters, Feb 12, 2026)

45,000-person labor strike at Samsung memory chip plants could throw a wrench into the AI boom; potential 18-day halt; up to 100 trillion KRW in losses. (Fortune, May 17, 2026)

Micron hits $1 trillion market cap for the first time; stock surges 19% driven by AI memory shortage. (CNBC, May 26, 2026)

Micron selected Bechtel as EPC partner for first phase of $100B semiconductor campus in Clay, New York; Bechtel mobilizing immediately. (ENR, Jun 15, 2026)

Micron selects Bechtel as construction partner for New York semiconductor project; expected to generate 50,000 jobs. (Yahoo Finance, Jun 11, 2026)

David Zinsner, EVP and CFO, and MJ Johnston Holthaus will serve as interim co-CEOs of Intel. (Fortune, Dec 3, 2024)

Micron's stock tripled in 2026 after UBS raised price target to $1,625; Micron joins Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft in $1T club. (Fortune, May 27, 2026)

Micron_Technology en.wikipedia monthly pageviews: Jan 2026: 43,882; Feb 2026: 31,697; Mar 2026: 42,334; Apr 2026: 30,845; May 2026: 89,530 (2.9x baseline spike); Jun 2026 partial: 31,758. May spike correlated with $1T market cap milestone, Trump endorsement May 22, Manassas 1α DRAM production start.

Q1 2026 DRAM market share: Samsung 38%, SK Hynix 29%, Micron ~33%. (Counterpoint Research, ~Jun 9, 2026)

Micron began manufacturing 1-alpha (1α) DRAM at Manassas, Virginia as part of $2B expansion — most advanced memory technology ever produced domestically in the United States. (Digitimes, May 24, 2026)

SK Hynix and Samsung delivered paid HBM4 samples to NVIDIA ahead of Q1 2026 contract finalization for Vera Rubin platform. (TrendForce, Dec 16, 2025)

Construction work progressing on Micron's $15B memory-chip manufacturing fab in Boise, Idaho. (Idaho Statesman, Jun 23, 2025)

Samsung launches aggressive price-cut strategy to compete in HBM4 market against SK Hynix. (Digitimes, Oct 27, 2025)

EPO OPS search: pa='fujian jinhua' OR pa='chang xin memory' OR pa=CXMT — total-result-count: 1308. CXMT CORP [CN] appears as primary applicant. Most recent publication: WO2026118617 (INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGE — memory chip + logic chip with stacked physical layers) published 2026-06-11. US-jurisdiction CXMT publications include US20260162743 (SOFT REPAIR CONTROL CIRCUIT) and US20260165159 (memory transistor device), both published 2026-06-11. IPC classes: H10B, H10D, G11C.

MDN Observatory assessment of micron.com: grade=D, score=30/100, tests_failed=2, tests_passed=8, tests_quantity=10, observatory_id=101204347. DNSSEC: delegationSigned=false. CAA records present. DMARC: v=DMARC1; p=reject. SPF: hard-fail (-all).

EPO OPS search: pa='micron technology inc' pd within '2020,2026' — total-result-count: 9743. MICRON TECH INC [US] confirmed as applicant. Sample publication: US20260161544 (G06F 12/02 — virtual memory management). Demonstrates extremely active patent portfolio across memory, storage, and compute-adjacent technologies.

EPO OPS search: pa='fujian jinhua' AND cpc=H10B pd within '2015,2022' — total-result-count: 295. Fujian Jinhua filed 295 H10B-class semiconductor memory patent applications 2015-2022 despite BIS Entity List designation in October 2018. Continued post-designation filings indicate ongoing R&D. H10B covers DRAM, FeRAM, flash, and related memory cell devices — directly overlaps Micron's core business.

EPO OPS search: pa='united microelectronics' AND ta=DRAM pd within '2015,2020' — total-result-count: 22. UMC had only 22 DRAM-specific EPO publications during 2015-2020, the period of alleged Micron IP transfer. The asymmetry between UMC's thin DRAM portfolio and Jinhua's 295 H10B filings is consistent with UMC serving as a conduit for Micron IP rather than an independent DRAM developer.

RDAP micron.com: registrar CSC Corporate Domains (IANA 299), registered 1994-12-02, expires 2027-12-01, last changed 2025-11-27. Status locks: client/server transfer/delete/update prohibited. NS: ns1-ns4.micron.com (self-hosted). MX: micron-com.mail.protection.outlook.com (Exchange Online). TXT SaaS verifications for Adobe, Amazon Business, Anthropic, Atlassian, Docker, Facebook, GlobalSign, Miro, MongoDB, OneTrust, Palo Alto, Perplexity, Reejig, Salesforce, Smartsheet, Twilio.

DOJ Indictment Nov 2018 — U.S. v. UMC, Fujian Jinhua, Stephen Chen, Kenny Wang, Ho Jian-Feng. Case CR-18-519-LB (ND Cal). Charges: economic espionage (18 USC 1831), trade secret theft (1832), unauthorized access (1030). UMC recruited Micron employees who carried DRAM cell architecture blueprints to UMC then to Jinhua. BIS Entity List Jinhua 2018-10-29. UMC guilty plea 2020, USD 60M fine.

CAC Cybersecurity Review and Product Ban: CAC launched review 2023-03-31, published 2023-05-21. Finding: Micron products present significant cybersecurity risks to China CII supply chain. Remedy: CII operators prohibited from purchasing Micron products. China revenue ~USD 3.3B FY2022 (~16.5% total). Post-ban FY2025 China share ~11%. Widely characterized as retaliatory.

DRAM Price-Fixing Antitrust Investigation 2002-2004: DOJ Antitrust Division investigated DRAM price-fixing cartel. Micron Technology reported the cartel and applied for leniency under DOJ Corporate Leniency Policy, receiving conditional immunity. Samsung, Hynix Semiconductor, and Infineon convicted; executives imprisoned; companies paid USD 300M+ in criminal fines. Civil class action MDL 02-1486 (ND Cal) settled for approximately USD 325M. Micron held conditional leniency from DOJ.

GitHub searches across 8 Micron-adversarial queries (security/vuln/breach, CAC ban, UMC/Jinhua trade secret, antitrust, CXMT, firmware CVE, rowhammer, SEC EDGAR). All returned 0 results. GitHub is not a venue for Micron accountability research.