Micron is inching closer to completing its $15 billion memory-chip factory at its headquarters campus in Southeast Boise.
A year ago, the company was doing its final land blasting at the site. A building official told the Idaho Statesman during a tour in June 2024 that about 360 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of dirt had been removed to make way for the new fab. (Fab is industry shorthand for semiconductor-fabrication plant).
The 600,000-square-foot building, now several floors tall, is hard to miss for passersby on Interstate 84 heading into Boise near South Federal Way. Heavy machinery and over a dozen cranes dot the site…