Thread regarding Micron Technology Inc. layoffs

Do not feel trapped at Micron

"That's easy to say but hard to do when there are no alternatives." This is what they want you to believe, however it is not reality.

Get your resume and LinkedIn profile up to date and let you friends ands professional connection know that you are looking for new opportunities. You may be surprised what opportunities are available.

You are nothing more than a disposable resource to them. All you need to do is look at the strong performers that where let go in Feb and March. There are departments that cut thousands years of Micron experience. In some departments the average tenure of the cut employees was in the excess of 20 years and the average age was over 45. Saving money was the objective, not retaining knowledgeable workers with decades of experience and a proven work history.

Assigning you more work than you can handle is a classic tactic to justify a low performance rating and in an attempt to get you to self exit. I'd get while the getting is good on your terms, not Micron's.

Excellent advice from @7sbq+1nlTKA16.

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Yep. Advanced packaging is what INTC is betting on. At same time, hedging their bets with ARM and foundry business. Will see where it goes...

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Post ID: @ddba+1ntGI97V

Thanks for the info, seems Ive spent too much time on the legacy side of the business (ask me about NOR… actually please dont). I didnt realize that we were seeing full desktop SoC’s already. That’s gonna ki-l the cost advantage of separate DRAM by simplifying OSAT BoMs. Makes sense why the company at large is betting on CXL. The only real advantage I can think of is by doing the attachment in assembly you can reduce the yield error rate by cutting down the die size. Maybe there’s some power advantage but that’s outside my wheelhouse.

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Post ID: @dtfm+1ntGI97V

I predicted demise of harddrives back in 2005. Google how many memory compiler IP vendors are for all main foundries integrated with ARM based processors. With SoC, it's no longer commodity business based on cost per transistor, rather, cost per system. My new Macbook doesn't have a single DRAM chip... and the transition is happening much faster than HDD -->SSD transition for all new systems in development. Sure, there's still gonna be legacy systems and dwindling stream of revenue for the next 10 years. But RnD in this line of business is doomed to extinction.

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Post ID: @ckwb+1ntGI97V

I wouldn’t go that far. Memory has always played like a commodity and been cost focused. Cost per transistor at the leading edge starting going up at 14nm which is why GloFlo halted development back in the day and Intel led by the finance guy gutted R&D budgets. SRAM gates require way more transistors than any NAND or DRAM cell

Having compute close to memory is advantageous but it will never be cost effective with current known methods. DRAM/NAND will have a place for bulk storage for awhile but it won’t be as lucrative as other semi players since it’s not really differentiated from competitors.

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Post ID: @cdre+1ntGI97V

It's a deadend business. SoC is the name of the game. Embeded SRAM on new sub-nm process nodes makes DRAM obsolete. Embeded non-volatile memories make NAND obsolete. Management knows that. That's why they focus on milking most revenue for their benefit while it's still coming. They know there is no tomorrow for this line of business and while INTC is morphing into foundry business, MU cannot do so. So it is the feast of vultures now.

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