Archive · 14 Aug 2026

Indian-born engineer now billionaire driving US chip boom

Indian-born engineer now billionaire driving US chip boom

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.

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