Quiz

In 1978, four men, two of them twin brothers, set up shop in the basement beneath a dentist’s office; one of them later recalled getting used to the smell of the “happy gas” drifting down from the chairs above. To turn their memory-chip designs into an actual factory, they needed capital, and it came from an unlikely local source: a self-made tycoon who had made his fortune in potatoes and supplied McDonald’s with its frozen french fries. He put in a million dollars, admitted he knew nothing about electronics, and reportedly vowed to make some millionaires out in the sagebrush. The 64K chips that followed went into home computers like the Commodore 64. Name the company.

CLUES

It is one of only three companies that dominate the world market for DRAM, and the only one of the three based in the United States. The other two are South Korean.

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Answer: Micron