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Idaho, Technology

Idaho’s Micron, a once insignificant company now taking over the world?

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26 April 2023 (10:44-UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Ordibehesht 1402/05 Shawwal 1444/07 Bing-Chen(3rd month) 4721/26 апреля 2023 года

Boise based Micron started life in 1978.  My first experience with Micron was in the Idaho Army National Guard, in the mid 1990s.  Micron was supplying complete computer systems to the military, most of which were used for administrative tasks.  Micron made a variety of computer products, but it seems that in the early 2000s company leaders decided to focus on computer memory (microchips, semiconductors), and stopped making complete systems. In the two-thousand-teens, more than a thousand Micron employees in the Boise metro-area were laid-off as Micron focused on taking over global competitors in the memory chip world.

Micron’s Boise operations are now so massive you literally need a vehicle to get around the campus.

Today, Micron is considered to be the leading memory maker in the United States, with operations in more than eight other countries, and it is now considered a national security threat by The People’s Republic of China (communist China).

Here is an incomplete list of links to the latest reports about the global influence of Idaho’s Micron Technology:

Oswego County, New York, is chomping at the bit for the new coveted taxpayer subsidized Micron jobs: “Any student who wants to learn and be a part of the semiconductor industry could have a career at Micron.”-Bo Machayo, Micron Director of U.S. Federal Government and Public Affairs 

Micron is a big supporter of STEM in Idaho, now, thanks to a deal with the federal government and the state of New York, Micron joined The Empire State’s STEM program.

Micron causing concern for U.S. companies in China, U.S. business group says.
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Top U.S. Memory Chipmaker Micron Likely To Secure Approval To Set Up A $1-billion ATMP-focused Semiconductor Unit In India.
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China says U.S. is using Micron to wage computer chip war:

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Micron issues STEM awards in Idaho:

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Virginia Tech joins Northeast University Semiconductor Network formed by Micron Technology.
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Micron Technology, the world’s fourth-largest semiconductor manufacturer, began eliminating jobs in Taiwan, February 2023.  Micron is the largest foreign employer in Taiwan (Republic of China):

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In October 2022, Micron took advantage of taxpayer funded government grants to bring production to the evil state of New York:

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In August, Micron gave a video tour of their operations in Japan:

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Idaho, Technology, U.S.

World War 3: Idaho S-T-E-M preps grade schoolers for future war

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“Summer is the time the program has given us to step outside our normal curriculum and experiment to try out new areas of STEM and develop new lessons we can then possibly submit to our national program for youth and other Starbase programs across the nation. Our Starbase staff were really excited about developing this new program and we hope to continue the curriculum into future summer camps and possibly the normal academic year.”-Courtney Taylor, Idaho Starbase director

During the months of June and July, 2022, fewer than 2-hundred 5th grade students in Idaho took part in an Idaho National Guard STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) Summer Camp program, called Starbase (STARBASE A Department of Defense Youth Program).  It is not the first time, but this year demand for such a program was high enough that the normal one camp was expanded into eight separate camps, and three new unique/specialized programs were tried-out.

The Starbase camp is for children of members of the Idaho state militia.  Military based STEM camps began in 2018, under the federal Department of Education’s (DoE) Title 1, however, according to the Idaho National Guard the federal Department of Defense (DoD) is actually providing the funding for the state militia operated STEM camps and after-school programs.

Children of migrant workers learn how to use computers to do facial reconstruction, on Idaho National Guard’s Gowen Field. Idaho Army National Guard photo by Crystal Farris, 15JUL2022.

Military based STEM camps are also for children of migrant farm workers, under the federal DoE’s Migrant Education Program.  It appears that the DoD’s Starbase STEM camps are exclusively for children of National Guard personnel, and children of migrant workers!

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Crystal Farris, 28JUN2022.

For June 2022, Idaho’s Starbase introduced three new categories for its Summer camp; identifying weapons of mass destruction (WMD) under the guise of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation), Space-Force training under the guise of Mission to Mars, and survival training under the guise of search and rescue. Students were part of other programs such as the Caldwell Migrant Summer School Program,  the Idaho Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, the Learning Garden Children’s Center in Meridian, and four different regions of the YMCA (Christian organization founded in the United Kingdom, based in Switzerland).

Idaho Army National Guard photo by Crystal Farris, 08JUL2022.

For July 2022, Starbase Idaho wrapped-up the season by introducing 3rd through 6th grade students to Idaho Army National Guard armored vehicles.

For years, the hi-tech industry in Idaho has worked with the military to educate grade school aged children in the ways of STEM.  Boise based computer chip maker Micron has its own STEM bus which makes visits to military bases. (just a week ago, Micron warned of continuing chip shortages, but this time due to crashing demand caused by inflation)

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