Some 700 Micron employees in Taiwan will receive five years’ worth of salary in bonuses as the company announced three bonuses in a single payout. According to Digitimes, this accounts for about 17% of the over 4,300 production-line employees working at Micron Taiwan. The remaining staff will not come out empty-handed, though, as they will receive three bonuses in the month of October. The news comes as Micron continues to battle worker unrest and unions fighting for increased pay.
- AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply
- Samsung debuts three next-generation memory technologies for AI data centers
- The future of DRAM: From DDR5 to future ICs
- High-bandwidth memory roadmap
- Inside the history of DRAM price-fixing lawsuits
The lump-sum payout consists of three incentives — an annual performance bonus that’s estimated to be between 7.5 and 12.5 months of salary for the majority of workers, a mass-production bonus amounting to 20% of their annual salary, plus a one-time $31,000 (NT$1,000,000) appreciation bonus which will be prorated for employees who haven’t reached a full year of service. Micron workers across the globe also expect a new quarterly profit bonus which will be paid 50% in cash and 50% in stock. This bonus will start in January 2027, with the first one to be paid 100% in cash.
Micron is following in the footsteps of Samsung and SK hynix , which have recently paid out massive bonuses to their workers of up to $400,000. This is a direct effect of the AI-driven memory chip boom , which saw the big three memory chip manufacturers — Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix — raking in massive orders from AI hyperscalers.
Source link







