Micron was started by a few guys in an Idaho basement. How it rose to be at the center of the AI boom
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MarketWatch — Micron was founded nearly half a century ago in a dentist-office basement in Boise. Against a backdrop of fierce competition between U.S. and Japanese memory-chip firms, twin brothers Ward and Joe Parkinson, alongside Dennis Wilson and Doug Pitman, started the semiconductor-design company focused on dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM. Today, that technology underpins inference, or the running of AI models.
Micron remains based in Boise and has survived multiple boom-and-bust memory cycles to become one of the world’s top DRAM producers, alongside South Korea’s SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics
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