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14-495: In 2008, Micron Technology acquired a 35.5% stake in Inotera from Qimonda as Qimonda underwent restructuring. The Company reached full conversion to 70 nm shrink technology at the end of June 2008 and started pilot production of Micron’s 50 nm stack process technology from the third quarter of 2009 in order to further improve the productivity and to reduce manufacturing unit cost. In January 2013, Micron announced an amendment to

28-466: A metre (or one thousandth of a millimetre , 0.001 mm , or about 0.000 04   inch ). The nearest smaller common SI unit is the nanometre , equivalent to one thousandth of a micrometre, one millionth of a millimetre or one billionth of a metre ( 0.000 000 001  m ). The micrometre is a common unit of measurement for wavelengths of infrared radiation as well as sizes of biological cells and bacteria , and for grading wool by

42-506: A series of digital cameras called Olympus μ [mju:] (known as Olympus Stylus in North America). In phonology : In syntax : In Celtic linguistics: The lower-case mu (as "micro sign") appeared at 0xB5 in the 8-bit ISO-8859-1 encoding, from which Unicode and many other encodings inherited it. It was also at 0xE6 in the popular CP437 on the IBM PC. Unicode has declared that

56-553: Is a homograph of the device's name. In spoken English, they may be distinguished by pronunciation, as the name of the measuring device is often stressed on the second syllable ( / m aɪ ˈ k r ɒ m ɪ t ər / my- KROM -it-ər ), whereas the systematic pronunciation of the unit name, in accordance with the convention for pronouncing SI units in English, places the stress on the first syllable ( / ˈ m aɪ k r oʊ m iː t ər / MY -kroh-meet-ər ). The plural of micron

70-577: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Micron The micrometre ( Commonwealth English as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures ; SI symbol: μm ) or micrometer ( American English ), also commonly known by the non-SI term micron , is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equalling 1 × 10   metre (SI standard prefix " micro- " = 10 ); that is, one millionth of

84-589: Is normally microns , though micra was occasionally used before 1950. The official symbol for the SI prefix micro- is a Greek lowercase mu . Unicode has inherited U+00B5 µ MICRO SIGN from ISO/IEC 8859-1 , distinct from the code point U+03BC μ GREEK SMALL LETTER MU . According to the Unicode Consortium , the Greek letter character is preferred, but implementations must recognize

98-584: Is not used, because it appears identical to Latin M . "μ" is used as a unit prefix denoting a factor of 10 (one millionth ), in this context, the symbol's name is " micro ". "μ" is conventionally used to denote certain things; however, any Greek letter or other symbol may be used freely as a variable name. In classical physics and engineering : In particle physics : In thermodynamics : In evolutionary algorithms : In type theory : In chemistry : In biology : In pharmacology : In orbital mechanics : The Olympus Corporation manufactures

112-596: Is the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet , representing the voiced bilabial nasal IPA: [m] . In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 40. Mu was derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for water, which had been simplified by the Phoenicians and named after their word for water, to become 𐤌 (mem). Letters that derive from mu include the Roman M and

126-457: The Cyrillic М , though the lowercase resembles a small Latin U (u). In Greek, the name of the letter was written μῦ and pronounced [mŷː] . In Modern Greek , the letter is spelled μι and pronounced [mi] . In polytonic orthography, it is written with an acute accent :  μί . The lowercase letter mu (μ) is used as a special symbol in many academic fields . Uppercase mu

140-406: The diameter of the fibres. The width of a single human hair ranges from approximately 20 to 200 μm . Between 1 μm and 10 μm: Between 10 μm and 100 μm: The term micron and the symbol μ were officially accepted for use in isolation to denote the micrometre in 1879, but officially revoked by the International System of Units (SI) in 1967. This became necessary because the older usage

154-414: The joint development agreement with Nanya that gave Micron access to all of Inotera's manufacturing output based on market pricing. In December 2016, Micron completed the acquisition at a transaction value of approximately US$ 4.0 billion. This article about a Taiwanese corporation or company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a manufacturing company

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168-464: The letter u for the symbol if the Greek letter μ was not available, as in " 15 um ". The Unicode CJK Compatibility block contains square forms of some Japanese katakana measure and currency units. U+3348 ㍈ SQUARE MIKURON corresponds to ミクロン mikuron . Mu (letter) Mu ( / ˈ m ( j ) uː / ; uppercase Μ , lowercase μ ; Ancient Greek μῦ [mŷː] , Greek : μι or μυ—both [mi] )

182-447: The micro sign as well for compatibility with legacy character sets . Most fonts use the same glyph for the two characters . Before desktop publishing became commonplace, it was customary to render the symbol μ in texts produced with mechanical typewriters by combining a slightly lowered slash with the letter u . For example, "15 μm" would appear as " 15 / um ". This gave rise in early word processing to substituting just

196-466: Was incompatible with the official adoption of the unit prefix micro- , denoted μ, during the creation of the SI in 1960. In the SI, the systematic name micrometre became the official name of the unit, and μm became the official unit symbol. In American English , the use of "micron" helps differentiate the unit from the micrometer , a measuring device, because the unit's name in mainstream American spelling

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