Flying high at Micron: battered from the memory's darkest years, a stronger Micron emerges.(Micron Technology Inc.)(Company overview) From: Electronic Business | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Dodge, John | COPYRIGHT 2006 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Under CEO Steve Appleton, Micron Technology has been on a 12-year odyssey that is finally Showing a payoff.

Micron's share price has nearly doubled since May 2005, and the once troubled memory maker has earned a profit for the past seven out of nine quarters. Confidence in the company's improving prospects manifested itself in November 2005, when Micron and Intel struck a $5 billion deal to create a joint manufacturing operation to produce memory for the burgeoning NAND ...

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