# Sanjay Mehrotra

Chairman, President, and CEO, Micron Technology. TIME100 AI 2026, Innovators. He runs Micron, the only American maker of the high-bandwidth memory that sits beside most leading AI chips. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/sanjay-mehrotra/))

- Born: 1958-06-27, Kanpur, India ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Mehrotra))
- Education: MS, Electrical engineering and computer sciences, UC Berkeley, 1980; BS, Electrical engineering and computer sciences, UC Berkeley, 1978; attended, no degree, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Mehrotra), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-mehrotra))
- Career: Micron Technology (Chairman, President and CEO, 2017 to now); SanDisk (Co-founder, President and CEO, 1988–2016); Integrated Device Technology (Design Manager, 1986–1988); SEEQ Technology; Intel ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Mehrotra), [micron.com](https://www.micron.com/about/company/leadership/sanjay-mehrotra), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-mehrotra))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/sanjay-mehrotra/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/sanjay-mehrotra

- 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](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sanjay-mehrotra_america250-americandream-activity-7479007420392923136-ziz9))
- Co-founded flash memory maker SanDisk in 1988 and stayed 28 years, through its 2016 sale to Western Digital. ([micron.com](https://www.micron.com/about/company/leadership/sanjay-mehrotra))
- Holds more than 70 patents, several of them foundational to high-capacity flash memory. ([micron.com](https://www.micron.com/about/company/leadership/sanjay-mehrotra))
- 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](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/sanjay-mehrotra/))
- Micron is the only American maker of high-bandwidth memory, the chips stacked next to AI processors, and one of three worldwide. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/sanjay-mehrotra/))
- Micron plans more than $250 billion of US manufacturing and R&D, aiming to make 40% of its DRAM in the US. ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sanjay-mehrotra_madeinamerica-activity-7481056755637133312-m9aI))