TIME100 AI 2026 · Innovators
Sanjay Mehrotra
Chairman, President, and CEO, Micron Technology
He runs Micron, the only American maker of the high-bandwidth memory that sits beside most leading AI chips.
- Born
- 1958-06-27, Kanpur, India
- Now
- Chairman, President and CEO, Micron Technology
- Studied
- UC Berkeley, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Interesting facts
- Early start
Moved to the US at 18 in 1976, transferring from BITS Pilani in India to UC Berkeley; he says that summer was his first flight.
linkedin.com - Before AI
Co-founded flash memory maker SanDisk in 1988 and stayed 28 years, through its 2016 sale to Western Digital.
micron.com - Numbers
Holds more than 70 patents, several of them foundational to high-capacity flash memory.
micron.com - Turning point
Steered Micron from a $5.8 billion loss in the 2023 downturn to AI growth, with cloud-memory quarterly revenue rising from $3.4 billion to $13.8 billion.
time.com - Numbers
Micron plans more than $250 billion of US manufacturing and R&D, aiming to make 40% of its DRAM in the US.
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Career
- Micron TechnologyChairman, President and CEO2017 to now
- SanDiskCo-founder, President and CEO1988–2016
- Integrated Device TechnologyDesign Manager1986–1988
- SEEQ Technology
- Intel
Education
- MS, Electrical engineering and computer sciences, UC Berkeley, 1980
- BS, Electrical engineering and computer sciences, UC Berkeley, 1978
- Attended, left without a degree, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
