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Stocks (from 22) The determined Boise company’s powerful
desire to keep its small memory business
the Tariff Act of 1930. The tariff violations going, survived the abandonment by sev-
led tiny Micron— probably the smallest eral other companies to fl ee the challeng-
memory supplier at the time — to bring ing memory business.
suit against the Japanese in the U.S. Inter-
national Trade Commission. Micron becomes a giant
The founding Micron quartet would not
David Vs. Goliath recognize today’s Micron. Over the years,
It was a David Vs. Goliath story. The small it has blossomed from a company with one
Micron marshalled a covey of lawyers and location in Idaho to a worldwide organiza-
experts, at a great expense they couldn’t tion.
aff ord, to testify at USITC hearings.
Over the past six years it has acquired
It took some time, but in August 1985, memory manufacturers in China, Colo-
the USITC ruled in Micron’s favor after rado, Utah, Virginia, Italy, Japan, Scotland,
an investigation into the dumping of 64K Singapore and Taiwan. It recently sold
DRAMs. The Commission said, “There is a its Lehi, Utah 300mm fab to Texas Instru-
reasonable indication that an industry in ments.
the United States was materially injured.”
For the full year 2021, Micron posted GAAP
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