Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today reaffirmed its
three-decade commitment to the industrial market with the
introduction of its Industrial Quotient (IQ) Partner Program.
Backed by Micron and other founding members such as Advantech,
ATP Electronics, Greenliant, Innodisk, Kontron, Mercury Systems and
Viking Technology, Micron’s IQ Partner Program promotes design
solutions that deliver high-quality, robust and long-lasting
products across a breadth of industrial applications such as
factory automation, transportation and defense systems.
The industrial internet of things (IIoT) continues to transform
the world of manufacturing at a rapid pace. This change extends
automation and connectivity beyond traditional factory walls and
drives demand for more data acquisition, communication, real-time
analytics and data-driven decisions across a wide range of
industrial verticals. The IQ Partner Program addresses the need for
greater coordination and collaboration across the supply chain,
which is required for designing today’s industrial solutions.
Five Tenets of Micron’s IQ Matters Program:With
more than three decades of leadership in developing memory
solutions for the industrial market, Micron launched the IQ Matters
Program in 2017, which forms the basis for the new IQ Partner
Program. Micron’s program is built around five key tenets of design
support that facilitate the creation of industrial products and
deliver sustainable lower total cost of ownership (TCO) to Micron’s
customers and the industry as a whole:
- Ruggedized product enhancements to enable consistent
performance across extreme environments, such as extended
temperatures, thermal cycling, shock and humidity.
- Design and testing processes to add a high level of endurance
and reliability to align with needs of long-lifecycle embedded
applications.
- Extensive and rigorous quality testing to deliver consistent
performance across products and processes necessary in embedded and
mission-critical applications.
- Extended lifecycle support for eligible products via Micron’s
Product Longevity Program, which goes a step beyond standard
lifecycle support to suit long-life applications.
- In-depth understanding of use cases to deliver products and
features optimized for specific application needs.
“The broad and growing deployment of IIoT applications makes
choosing the right industrial memory and storage solutions more
critical for embedded applications,” said Kris Baxter, vice
president of marketing for the Embedded Business Unit at Micron.
“The IQ Partner Program gives our industrial customers confidence
that they are choosing the best products and minimizing the total
cost of ownership for their IIoT designs. These selections not only
help meet the functional requirements of tomorrow’s industrial
solutions, but they also ensure long-term reliability and quality
with simplified product lifecycle management.”
Micron memory and storage solutions remain the industry’s top
choice across a variety of IIoT applications including industrial
PCs (IPC), factory automation, surveillance, machine-to-machine
(M2M), retail, digital signage, smart grid, fleet management and
health care, as well as aerospace and defense. Members of Micron’s
IQ Partner Program are committed to the development and delivery of
robust industrial solutions that are optimized for the increasing
demands and expectations for these critical applications.
Quotes From Micron’s Industrial Quotient
PartnersAdvantech: “Advantech is glad to
be a part of Micron’s IQ Partner Program,” said Linda Tsai,
president of Industrial IoT at Advantech. “Micron shares the same
Industrial Quotient values with Advantech; therefore, having a
partner like Micron that offers industry longevity, quality and
reliable solutions enables us to better support factory automation,
medical and transportation applications where these values are of
paramount interest for our end customers.”
ATP Electronics: “As long-time partners and
fellow innovators, Micron and ATP Electronics are on a common
mission to reshape the market’s concept of what it means to be
industrial and ensure our customers get the best value out of their
total cost of ownership,” said Marco Mezger, vice president of
global marketing at ATP Electronics. “Micron’s (IQ) Partner Program
echoes and complements our own ‘industrial only’ commitment and
identity by considering factors far beyond a product’s temperature
support.”
Greenliant: “Micron’s industrial temperature 3D
MLC NAND with advanced single-pass programming and power loss
protection helps us address applications with enhanced data
integrity requirements, such as train brake management systems,”
said Ralph Thomson, director of field applications engineering at
Greenliant. “Operating in extreme conditions with shock, vibration
and power interruptions, train brake management equipment relies on
Greenliant’s NANDrive BGA SSDs to store the operating system and
critical maintenance data. Combined with Greenliant’s SSD
controller know-how, Micron's 3D NAND flash technology has been
advantageous in meeting reliability, safety and security needs for
data storage in transportation systems.”
Innodisk: “Innodisk is excited to partner with
Micron because we share the same commitment to bringing
industry-leading integrated solutions to the most demanding
environments,” said C.C. Wu, vice president of Innodisk. “This
collaboration helps move the industry into the future of artificial
intelligence of things (AIoT).”
Kontron: “We are pleased to cooperate with
Micron, one of the leading chip manufacturers of innovative NVMe
flash technologies. Micron allows Kontron to offer higher-capacity
flash memory in a smaller footprint with faster access times, “said
Peter Mueller, vice president of Product Center Boards &
Modules at Kontron. “Micron’s focus on the embedded and industrial
markets supports reliable and rugged products, which is important
for Kontron and its customers.”
Mercury Systems: “Combining Micron’s
high-performance memory technology with Mercury Systems’ advanced
miniaturization and packaging expertise, we enable the smallest
aerospace and defense embedded systems with the most dense and
high-reliability DRAM and SSD devices,” said Iain Mackie, vice
president and general manager of Microelectronics Secure Solutions
at Mercury Systems. “Our collaboration with Micron reinforces our
commitment to making commercial technology profoundly more
accessible to aerospace and defense.”
Viking Technology: “Viking Technology has a
strong legacy in developing industrial and embedded DRAM memory and
flash storage products,” said Hamid Shokrgozar, president of Viking
Technology. “In recent years, we have expanded those solutions to
include specialized multichip package products such as our
ParallelCell MCP solution. This solution is designed, developed and
optimized for the stringent requirements of the military and
aerospace market, and as such, we need a partner that can deliver
NAND flash and DRAM memory enabled for these requirements. The
Industrial Quotient partnership with Micron solidifies a long-term
roadmap for those markets and further supports us as we move into
the space market where endurance and temperature requirements are
tested to their fullest potential."
To learn more about Micron’s (IQ) Partner Program, visit
www.micron.com/IQ.
About Micron Technology, Inc. We are an
industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions. Through
our global brands — Micron® and Crucial® — our broad portfolio of
high-performance memory and storage technologies, including DRAM,
NAND, 3D XPoint™ memory and NOR, is transforming how the world uses
information to enrich life. Backed by more than 40 years of
technology leadership, our memory and storage solutions enable
disruptive trends, including artificial intelligence, 5G, machine
learning and autonomous vehicles, in key market segments like
mobile, data center, client, consumer, industrial, graphics,
automotive, and networking. Our common stock is traded on the
Nasdaq under the MU symbol. To learn more about Micron Technology,
Inc., visit www.micron.com.
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