Lynn Dugle, former CEO of Engility and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been appointed to the board of directors at Boise, Idaho-based computer memory and data storage vendor Micron Technology.

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The National Science Foundation will work with semiconductor manufacturing company Micron Technology to finance the creation of an industry learning framework for colleges and universities. The cross-sector partnership will see NSF and Micron, through the Micron Foundation, invest $5 million each to develop educational materials on semiconductor design and manufacturing for students and professors to […] More

Micron Technology has signed a framework detailing its initial commitments to the community and workforce in New York where its semiconductor fabrication facility will be built using $100 billion in investments over a minimum period of two decades. The chip manufacturer said Thursday it is teaming up with Empire State Development to manage the Community […] More

Semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology will invest approximately $15 billion in the construction of a new memory manufacturing fab near the company’s research and development center in Boise, Idaho. The manufacturing plant will be the first facility of its kind to be built in the U.S. in 20 years and will create more than 17,000 new […] More

Intel, Analog Devices and Micron have joined a Mitre Engenuity-led alliance to help further build up the U.S. semiconductor industry by accelerating microelectronics research, development and prototyping. The Semiconductor Alliance seeks to engage with companies and academic institutions to advance a whole-of-nation approach to innovation, ensure supply chain resilience and safeguard intellectual property amid global […] More

Epner Technology has received National Institute of Standards and Technology's gold standard recognition for the firm's infrared reflectivity technology. Laser Gold, the firm's electroplating process, is designed to produce gold coating that is pure (0.9999), three times harder than standard 24 karat equivalents and reflective to infrared, Epner said Monday.

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DRS Technologies has exhibited the performance of its 10-micron pixel pitch infrared sensor. The IR detector features a thermal camera with 1280×1024 resolution, as well as 640×512 and 320×256 arrays designed for integration into original equipment manufacturer systems, DRS said Tuesday. The sensor passed the 50 milliKelvins noise equivalent temperature difference standard for uncooled IR technologies. […] More

Microsoft, Micron Technology and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are partnering on the two-year Transferring Exascale Computational Chemistry to Cloud Computing Environment and Emerging Hardware Technologies project. TEC4 aims to make computational chemistry more accessible to greater numbers of researchers and practitioners, effectively providing computational chemistry as a service. More

Joe Carson, formerly a vice president and chief procurement officer at Micron Technology, has been named VP of global operations and service at Vislink, where he will be tasked to help its executive team enhance procurement operations.

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Four technology companies have teamed up with the National Science Foundation to invest nearly $50 million in chip design innovations as part of the agency’s Future of Semiconductors initiative. IBM, Intel, Ericsson and Samsung signed up for the public-private partnership with the intent to fund projects that offer “co-design” methods for designing and producing semiconductor […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and an industry consortium have selected six university research centers to conduct research efforts that seek to address challenges related to microelectronic technologies under a potential five-year, $200 million cost-sharing program. Linton Salmon, manager of DARPA’s Joint University Microelectronics Program, said in a statement published Wednesday JUMP and the […] More

Persistence Market Research sees an expansive growth in the next generation data storage technology market by 2021 to cater to the amount of data collected from various technologies such as mobile phones, smart homes and wearable electronics. PMR said Tuesday Avago Technologies, Dell, Drobo, EMC, Hewlett-Packard Development Company, Hitachi Data Systems, HGST, IBM, Micron Technology, […] More