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Indian-born engineer now billionaire driving US chip boom

Indian-born engineer now billionaire driving US chip boom
This Indian-born engineer rejected 3 times by US is now a billionaire driving America’s chip boom · financialexpress.com

Sanjay grew up in India in a family that did not have much money.

His father really wanted him to study in America.

The US said no to his visa three times, but his father kept trying until Sanjay got in.

He went to a famous university and learned how to build chips for computers.

He and his friends started a company that made tiny memory cards for cameras and phones.

Later, he became the boss of Micron, a company that makes memory chips used in computers and AI.

Because AI became very popular, Micron's value grew very big, over one trillion dollars.

Sanjay became a billionaire and his company is spending lots of money to make chips in the US.

Even the US president praised him and took him on an important business trip.

His story shows what can happen when you never give up.

Key facts

Role
Chairman, president and CEO of Micron Technology since May 2017
Born
Kanpur, India, in 1958
Visa rejections
Rejected three times by the US Consulate in New Delhi in 1976
Net worth
$1.3 billion as of July 2026
Forbes ranking
No. 129 on America's Richest Immigrants 2026 list
Micron valuation
$1 trillion, up from a little over $100 billion a year earlier, per Reuters
US investment
$250 billion pledged in July 2026 to produce 40% of DRAM chips in the US

Quotes

Sanjay Mehrotra

CEO of Micron Technology

“Thank you @POTUS for your support. Micron is proud to be part of this historic initiative, which complements our over $200 billion investment in U.S. memory manufacturing and R&D, creating over 90,000 jobs across the country.”
financialexpress.com

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