Talk:Micron Technology

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Archived copy of deletion article (consensus was to keep)

From Cleanup: Micron Technologies, ad (moved from Cleanup by SimonP)
 * Keep - Micron is an important player in the computer industry. Send back to cleanup for expansion. Ocon | Talk 05:39, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with Ocon. Could somebody fill in some background (to have it sound less like an ad, and, btw, the company's name is Micron Technology) --Palapala 07:53, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)
 * Renamed Krik 10:06, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)


 * Keep. Major company. Should of stayed on cleanup. Krik 10:06, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. I have added significant background about the company. Zdv 06:20, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC) (moved here from vfd main space by Graham &#9786; | Talk 01:01, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC))

End archived discussion

What does the DRAM price inflation have to do with Micron?
The last two paragraphs read quite awkwardly and disrupt the flow of the article. I was going to try to simply fix the wording, but when I tried to reword them in light of their relation to the rest of the article, I couldn't figure out why their content was even the slightest bit relevant. Micron wasn't even charged in the mentioned case or involved in the scandal. If you read the referenced article you'll find that the only mention of Micron is when a regional officer didn't submit documents that were subpoenaed.

And that sudden quote at the end? Why quote that part of the article? What purpose does it serve? Did that revisionist just say, "Hey, let's throw in a random quote for good measure. I know it doesn't make any sense, and I'm not going to tie it in or give it context in my revision, but who cares?" It comes from out of nowhere and is not attributed or explained in the text. You can't just make sudden quotes and expect everyone to understand why you placed them... or even care.

If poor style and confusing placement aren't enough, these two final paragraphs imply incorrectly that Micron was complicit in the DRAM price scandal. The fact that one employee of Micron was involved doesn't mean the whole company was. Why make implications like this when they're not true? And if Micron wasn't involved as a corporation, why mention it in their company's page? What makes this piece of information important enough to feature here? What a terrible way to conclude this article.

In the context of this article as a whole, these last two paragraphs seem like random, unrelated trivia that most people certainly wouldn't care about. They were written in sloppy style, in poor grammar, and in bad taste, a stark contrast to the rest of the article.

I'm removing these last two paragraphs.

Other products
Micron made four models of their Xceed color video cards for the Macintosh SE/30, and an optional adapter to display greyscale video on the SE/30's internal CRT. Micron also made ISA bus memory expansion boards for the IBM PC/AT and clones. The company is currently exploring entering the photovoltaic market as a way to re-purpose some of their obsolete semiconductor fabrication facilities. Micron produced some of their own motherboards for their computers, mostly in the 486 and early Socket 7 era. Currently, AFAIK, the only fully finished products the company makes are the memory modules sold through their Crucial Technology division.
 * ISA DRAM cards
 * MB-18-DH Micron Technology IBM AT 1MB-2MB $875 (1MB)
 * MB-28-DH Micron Technology IBM AT 2MB-4MB $1,395 (2MB)
 * MB-48-DH Micron Technology IBM AT 4MB $2,495 (4MB)
 * Xceed Video cards
 * 3MT
 * Color 30
 * Color 30HR
 * MacroColor 30
 * Gray-Scale 30 adapter (Requires one of the above cards to display greyscale on the SE/30's internal CRT display.)

More Micron Xceed Macintosh products. http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/microngray.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzybody (talk • contribs) 06:39, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

What did the company produce from their founding in 1978 until Fab 1 came online in 1981 to produce 64K DRAM chips? Did it take 3~4 years to build that plant?


 * Micron did semiconductor design work during its first 2-3 years as a company (http://www.micron.com/about/company/milestones.html) the fab construction took 1 year. Zanfar (talk) 06:05, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Interland relationship
Is the Interland in the article the same as this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interland,_Inc. ?
 * Yes Zanfar (talk) 17:20, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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