The trip to Micron was a very educational trip for me. I was very interested even from the time we pulled up on the bus because I saw how the building and all of its marvels. Micron is a very official Corporation because they have trade secrets that they do not want their competitors getting a hold of them. Having the smallest edge on your competitors is essential to compete in the capitalistic market. They limited everyone that was on the tour to what they could bring to insure this secrecy.
Going into Micron I did not know much about DRAM, Flash based memory, and imaging sensors. We saw all of these fabricated on site except for the imaging sensors because the environment has to be very clean in which they are created. The DRAM and Flash memory has to also be clean but not to the standards of the image sensoring. The room that the memory is fabricated in is yellow in order to not damage the wafers. The wafers are also in a box called a FOUP and this was another precaution that is taken to insure that the wafer does not get contaminated with any particles floating in the air. The memory that is fabricated on site is used in most of the products that we use in a daily basis.
The different jobs there include accounting, marketing, systems engineering, mechanical engineering, and many other jobs in the engineering field. There are also jobs to keep the machines working to full production. Working at Micron would be an excitement everyday but I would need further schooling to do the work needed.
