{"id":10305,"date":"2012-08-28T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=10305"},"modified":"2012-08-28T22:51:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T04:51:44","slug":"micron-ceo-weighs-in-on-companys-market-position-and-education-in-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/08\/28\/micron-ceo-weighs-in-on-companys-market-position-and-education-in-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Micron CEO Weighs In On Company’s Market Position, And Education In Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Micron Technology<\/p>

Mark Durcan, Micron CEO<\/p><\/div>\n

Micron Technology<\/a> CEO Mark Durcan spoke to a full house at the City Club of Boise today.<\/p>\n

It was an opportunity to hear the new head of one of Boise\u2019s most influential companies and largest employers discuss its market position and future.<\/p>\n

Durcan stressed Micron\u2019s strength in a notoriously volatile industry, and explained the strategic importance of acquiring bankrupt Japanese memory chip maker Elpida.\u00a0 That deal<\/a> should be finalized by this spring, he said, pending the approval of Elpida’s creditors and antitrust approval from several countries.<\/p>\n

It was Durcan\u2019s answer to a question about education that drew the most significant response from the audience.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think Idaho\u2019s education system is responding to the need for engineers?\u201d someone asked.\u00a0 Durcan described work Micron has done to fund and collaborate with Idaho educational institutions.\u00a0 He then hesitated and went on.<\/p>\n

“What I would say is that I think Idaho as a community \u2013 not necessarily as a state government \u2013 Idaho as a community is doing a good job trying to increase and improve the infrastructure available to corporations here.”\u00a0 It was a pointed distinction that drew applause and some laughter.<\/em><\/p>\n

State higher education budgets have been cut by roughly 20 percent since 2009, according to data from the Legislative Services Office.<\/p>\n

Micron Technology<\/a> was established in Boise in 1978, and employs more than 5,000 people in the Treasure Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Micron Technology CEO Mark Durcan spoke to a full house at the City Club of Boise today. It was an opportunity to hear the new head of one of Boise\u2019s most influential companies and largest employers discuss its market position and future. Durcan stressed Micron\u2019s strength in a notoriously volatile industry, and explained the strategic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":4561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[236,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}