Media coverage of Micron by the last few years has focused mostly on layoffs and glum financial reports, but some good news came for the Boise-based semiconductor giant by the past few months.

First, in May, Micron announced that a joint venture with Intel had produced the industry’s first (and so far only) sub-40 nanometer (nm) memory chip; thereupon, early that month the company, with about 15,000 patents, placed second only to Intel on the Patent Board’s “Patent Scorecard.”

“At the end of the day it comes down to innovation,” said Micron spokesman Dan Francisco. “We’re continuing to design and innovate on the broader memory and imaging front as we have for years.”

The Patent Board, a leading intellectual property and patent portfolio analysis firm, releases its “Patent Scorecard” each year which is published in the Wall Street Journal. The 2008 edition of the report ranked 208 companies in the semiconductor […]

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