Micron Technology

Rule Changes

Defendant and appellant

A German court on September 18 ordered Micron to stop selling certain 3D NAND memory products in Germany. The ruling, over two utility-model patents owned by Chinese chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC), is the first substantive win in a three-year patent war spanning five jurisdictions.

Updated Sep 29

Rule Changes

Committed $250 million — largest single corporate pledge to Trump Accounts

The program launched July 4, 2026, opening for contributions on America's 250th birthday. Treasury deposited $1,000 into 1.4 million eligible accounts, committing $1.4 billion in total; 6 million children are now enrolled.

Updated Jul 7

New Capabilities

Third supplier; smaller share of Nvidia orders

Modern AI chips can crunch numbers faster than memory can feed them data. On June 18, 2026, SK hynix said it shipped samples of HBM4E, a stacked memory chip built to narrow that gap, to major customers.

Updated Jun 18

Built World

Third-place HBM competitor with aggressive expansion plans

For decades, chip packaging was the unglamorous final step—stacking and connecting silicon dies after the real engineering was done. Now it's the constraint holding back AI.

Updated May 20