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<div>Ted makes an excellent point. In a long ago lifetime I was a
conservation lobbyist in Boise when JR Simplot, Micron founder and
majority shareholder (among other things), made his first ever visit
to the Statehouse. The Legislature literally shut down their chambers,
rolled out a red carpet (I'm not kidding) and assembled to hear JR
speak to them about the need for improving engineering education in
Idaho. That was 1995. Micron's influence on state politics through
their simple presence in Boise has only increased since then. Remember
the state budget crash of three years ago? That was largely
precipitated by lower corporate tax returns (Micron) due to the
worldwide recession lowering demand for their product.</div>
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<div>Mark</div>
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<div>At 11:37 AM -0700 6/3/06, Ted Moffett wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>All:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>One major reason Boise and Boise State
have gained advantages over North Idaho, Moscow and the U of I can be
summed up in one word: computers.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Micron is Idaho's largest private
employer, employing around 10,000 in the Boise area alone, with HP
adding another 4000 jobs to the Boise area.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>According to a 2005 economic analysis,
Micron alone accounts for 3.7 percent of Idaho's economic activity,
employs 24,000 statewide (these are not low paying service sector
Wal-Mart/McDonalds jobs), and contributes one billion (as in
1,000,000,000 $) dollars in personal income to Idaho.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Read data here:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href=
"http://download.micron.com/pdf/presentations/idahoimpact/micronimpact.pdf"
><font size="-1"
color="#0000FF"
>http://download.micron.com/pdf/presentations/idahoimpact/micronimpac<span
></span>t.pdf</font></a><font size="-1">.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Many times around Moscow when I ask
someone who is Idaho's largest private employer I get an answer that
ignores Idaho's high tech economy.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Take away just Micron and HP from Boise,
and this subtraction of economic power would shift some of
the influence of Boise/Boise State back to North Idaho and
the U of I:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://www.boisechamber.org/ec_dev/employers.htm"
>http://www.boisechamber.org/ec_dev/employers.htm</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000"><b>EMPLOYER NAME</b></font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000"><b>TOTAL JOBS</b></font><font face="Arial" size="-2"
color="#000000"> (01/01/05)</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">Micron Technology, Inc. </font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">9,500 </font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">Mountain Home Air Force Base</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">5,250**</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">Saint Luke's Regional Medical Center</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">4,300</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">Boise School District</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">4,000*</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">Hewlett-Packard Company</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">4,000</font><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>-----------------</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>This impacts the influence of Boise
State:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href=
"http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060505/NEWS0202/605050367/1029/NEWS02"><span
></span
>http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060505/NE<span
></span>WS0202/605050367/1029/NEWS02</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+2"><b>Micron gives $5
million for BSU doctoral program<br>
<br>
</b></font>The Micron Technology Foundation said Thursday that it will
donate $5 million to help Boise State University develop its new Ph.D.
program in electrical and computer engineering.<br>
<br>
The doctoral program is a big step toward making BSU a metropolitan
research university with a national reputation, university President
Bob Kustra said. Science and technology officials agreed.<br>
<br>
"We have lost our professors in the past to other states because
they had better grants for research," said Jason Crawforth,
president and chief executive officer of Boise-based TreeTop
Technologies and a member of the Governor's Science and Technology
Advisory Council. "If you think about it, money is what drives
the best professors to do the best research, and if you have better
professors, you have better students."<br>
Last year, BSU told the State Board of Education it needed about $5
million over the next three years to start the program, and then the
school could keep it funded through research grants. Micron will
spread $3 million of its gift over the next four years and use the
remaining $2 million to match other donations that BSU receives for
the program.<br>
The engineering school plans to use the money to add two or three new
faculty positions, offer competitive stipends to its doctoral students
and renovate its laboratories, said Cheryl Schrader, dean of the
College of Engineering.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>-------------</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>And it looks like Micron is maintaining
its economic power on the global chip market, despite
the slowdowns and layoffs that happened during the high tech
collapse after the Clinton years economic boom bubble
burst:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href=
"http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060518/NEWS0202/605180320/1029/NEWS02"><span
></span
>http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060518/NE<span
></span>WS0202/605180320/1029/NEWS02</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+2"><b>Micron smiles for the
camera<br>
</b></font><font size="+1"><b>Chip maker ready to unveil new
technology that will allow it to expand presence in digital camera
market</b></font><br>
<br>
Micron Technology will unveil a new imaging chip today that could help
the company expand into the digital camera market.<br>
<br>
Micron, Idaho's largest private employer, already dominates the mobile
phone market. Its CMOS - complementary metal-oxide semiconductor -
image sensors are used in one-third of the camera phones on the
market.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>-------------</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Ted Moffett<br>
</blockquote>
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