The core company suffered setbacks, however, requiring layoffs of 15 percent of its workforce in October 2008, during which period the company also announced the purchase of Qimonda's 35.6% stake in Inotera Memories for $400 million. In 2008, Micron spun off Aptina Imaging, which was acquired by ON Semiconductor in 2014. In 2008, Micron converted the Avezzano chip fab, formerly a Texas Instruments DRAM fab, into a production facility for CMOS image sensors sold by Aptina Imaging. The company again changed leadership in June 2007 with COO Mark Durcan becoming President. In 2006, Micron acquired Lexar, an American manufacturer of digital media products. In 2012, Micron became sole owner of this second joint venture. The two companies formed another joint venture in 2011, IM Flash Singapore, in Singapore. Micron and Intel created a joint venture in 2005, based in IM Flash Technologies in Lehi, Utah. Pitch double-patterning was also pioneered by Gurtej Singh Sandhu at Micron during the 2000s, leading to the development of 30-nm class NAND flash memory, and it has since been widely adopted by NAND flash and RAM manufacturers worldwide. This helped drive cost-effective implementation of semiconductor memory, starting with 90 nm node DRAM. Doan at Micron initiated the development of atomic layer deposition high-k films for DRAM memory devices. In 2000, Gurtej Singh Sandhu and Trung T. Ī 1996 3-way merger among ZEOS International, Micron Computer, and Micron Custom Manufacturing Services (MCMS) increased the size and scope of the company this was followed rapidly with the 1997 acquisition of NetFrame Systems, in a bid to enter the mid-range server industry. In 1994, founder Joe Parkinson retired as CEO and Steve Appleton took over as Chairman, President, and CEO. In 1981, the company moved from consulting to manufacturing with the completion of its first wafer fabrication unit ("Fab 1"), producing 64K DRAM chips. Simplot, whose fortune was made in the potato business. Later it received funding from Idaho billionaire J. Startup funding was provided by local Idaho businessmen Tom Nicholson, Allen Noble, Rudolph Nelson, and Ron Yanke. Micron was founded in Boise, Idaho, in 1978 by Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Dennis Wilson, and Doug Pitman as a semiconductor design consulting company. Micron and Intel together created IM Flash Technologies, which produced NAND flash memory. Its consumer products, including the Ballistix line of memory modules, are marketed under the Crucial brand. is an American producer of computer memory and computer data storage including dynamic random-access memory, flash memory, and USB flash drives.
Crucial-branded SD memory cards from 2007. Lexar SDXC UHS-II memory card (front and back) manufactured while the company was owned by Micron. DDR4 RDIMM featuring both Micron logo (far left) and Crucial logo (centre right).
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