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Micron started in 1978 as a four-person semiconductor design company working from the basement of a Boise dental office. It grew through manufacturing, memory innovation and major acquisitions into a global DRAM and NAND supplier.
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Arm grew from processor work at Acorn Computers into a 1990 joint venture with Apple and VLSI. Its licensing model and power-efficient architecture later became foundational to smartphones and embedded computing.
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Five former IBM employees founded SAP in 1972 to build standard software for real-time business processing. R/2, R/3, ERP and HANA turned that idea into a global enterprise platform.
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SanDisk was founded in 1988 by Eli Harari with co-founders including Sanjay Mehrotra and Jack Yuan. Its flash-storage products helped move solid-state memory into cameras, phones and PCs before a Western Digital acquisition and 2025 separation.
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IBM traces its roots to tabulating, time-recording and scale companies combined in 1911. Punched cards, mainframes, the IBM PC, services, cloud and AI turned it into one of technology’s longest-running institutions.
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Marvell was founded in 1995 and first became known for semiconductor technology used in storage. Acquisitions and a strategic refocus later moved the company towards networking, cloud, carrier and AI data infrastructure.
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Schneider Electric traces its roots to the Schneider brothers’ 1836 takeover of the Le Creusot foundry. The business moved from steel and heavy industry into electricity, automation, energy management and industrial software.
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CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch around a cloud-native alternative to legacy endpoint security. The Falcon platform later expanded across identity, cloud, data and AI security.
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Seagate was formed as Shugart Technology in 1979 by Alan Shugart and partners. Its 5.25-inch ST-506 helped establish hard drives for personal computers, followed by decades of higher capacities and new recording technologies.
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MediaTek was formed in Taiwan in 1997 when a UMC business unit was spun off. Optical-storage chipsets built the early business before mobile SoCs, connectivity and Dimensity made it a major fabless semiconductor company.
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