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Micron Technology

Hardware & Semiconductors 78 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-09-22 METHOD V6.5
BDS-1000 Score 471 /1000 C Tier C - High
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 5.50 Political ↗ 2.26
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Key Findings

  • Economic: Micron publicly describes current Israel-based R&D and sales activity, maintains Israel-facing distributor and representative channels, and advertised a remote/Tel Aviv technical-enablement role; the reviewed record does not quantify the operation or establish customers, revenue, investment, or occupied-territory activity.1, 2, 3
  • Political: Micron’s public-policy and political-engagement materials do not establish Israel/Palestine advocacy, anti-BDS lobbying, settlement-related lobbying, or relevant political recipients in the reviewed records.4, 5
  • Corporate history: Micron’s earlier Kiryat Gat 200mm fabrication-facility relationship was discontinued through a fiscal-2013 sale/wind-down; secondary registry material indicates a separate Micron Technology Israel Ltd. registration remains active, but does not verify parent ownership or control.6, 7
  • Not found: No public evidence identified of direct Micron contracting with Israeli military, security, or intelligence bodies, or of Micron digital-surveillance, cloud, AI, or settlement-infrastructure activity.8, 9

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameMicron Technology, Inc.10
JurisdictionDelaware, United States.10
HeadquartersBoise, Idaho, United States.10
SectorSemiconductor memory and storage products.10
OwnershipNasdaq Global Select Market ticker MU. As of 31 October 2025, disclosed beneficial owners above 5% were Vanguard Group (8.4%), BlackRock (7.6%), and Capital World Investors (6.3%); no disclosed holder was at or above 10%.11
Key Executives / GovernanceSanjay Mehrotra, Chairman, President and CEO; Lynn A. Dugle, Lead Independent Director; the verified board also includes Steven J. Gomo, Linnie M. Haynesworth, T. Mark Liu, A. Christine Simons, Robert H. Swan, MaryAnn Wright, and Alexis Black Björlin.11, 12
Israeli-Nexus SummaryDocumented Israel-facing R&D, sales, recruitment, distributors and representatives; no verified evidence in the reviewed record of Israeli military/security contracting, settlement operations, or conflict-specific political activity.1, 2, 8

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Micron is a U.S.-incorporated semiconductor memory and storage company with documented commercial and employment links to Israel. Its public careers material states that its Israel team is dedicated to R&D and sales. Its distributor directory lists Avnet Israel, Digi-Key, Eastronics, and Mouser Electronics as Israel channels, while its representative directory lists CRG Electronics in Karmiel and Petah Tikva. These records establish commercial availability, representation, and a current local activity claim, but not end customers, revenues, workforce, product uses, government contracts, or activity in occupied territory.1, 2, 3

The strongest documented nexus is therefore economic and operational rather than military or digital. Current Tel Aviv-associated recruitment supports continuing Israel-linked activity. Secondary registry sources also indicate an active entity, Micron Technology Israel Ltd., incorporated in 2019 and associated with a Tel Aviv–Jaffa address. However, the available commercial records do not verify shareholder ownership, ultimate control, financials, workforce, or the legal relationship between that entity and Micron Technology, Inc.; an official Registrar extract was not retrieved.7, 13

The historical record must also be distinguished from present activity. Micron’s fiscal-2013 restructuring materials document the sale or winding down of its 200mm fabrication facility in Kiryat Gat. Historic Micron subsidiary records establish a former Israeli subsidiary, Micron Semiconductor Israel Ltd.; commercial registry data subsequently reports that entity as voluntarily liquidated. The reviewed materials do not establish legal succession from that former entity to Micron Technology Israel Ltd. Divested or discontinued operations are not treated as current operations.6, 14

No public evidence identified in the reviewed record of a Micron contract, tender, delivery, service relationship, or verified supply chain transaction with the IDF, Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israeli intelligence bodies, police, prisons, border-security bodies, IAI, Rafael, Elbit, or another named Israeli defence prime. Micron markets memory and storage products for aerospace-and-defence applications generally, but the reviewed material does not identify an Israeli end user, weapons programme, platform, export licence, or security deployment.8, 15

No public evidence identified of Micron providing surveillance, biometrics, offensive cyber tools, Israeli cloud or data-residency services, AI systems, autonomous target-generation systems, or technology used in settlements. Nor do the reviewed political records establish Israel/Palestine advocacy, anti-BDS activity, settlement-related lobbying, Israel-related political giving, or grants to identified military-welfare or settlement organizations. On the fixed human-vetted V6.5 assessment, the documented continuing economic presence produces the maximum domain score, while the absence of substantiated military and digital nexus is reflected in zero scores. The resulting BRS is 471, Tier C (Substantial Complicity).

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
9 February 2010Micron and its Dutch subsidiary entered an agreement to acquire Numonyx Holdings B.V.; the agreement defined Numonyx Israel Ltd., company no. 514032986.16
FY2013Micron’s restructuring disclosures state that it sold/wound down its 200mm fabrication facility in Kiryat Gat, Israel.6
1 August 2012Avnet announced acquisition of CRG Electronics’ components-distribution operating assets; the acquired activity became part of Avnet Israel.17
24 October 2019Micron announced acquisition of FWDNXT for AI inference-engine technology; the announcement did not identify FWDNXT as Israeli or establish an Israeli entity connection.18
6 August 2019Commercial registry data reports incorporation of Micron Technology Israel Ltd.; this is secondary registry evidence, not verification of Micron parent ownership.7
Q4 FY2020Micron global-footprint material listed Be’er Sheva, Israel as “Customer Focus,” without defining the site’s function or continuing status.19
26 May 2025Commercial registry data reports dissolution/liquidation of Micron Semiconductor Israel Ltd.; this is not an official liquidation certificate.14
31 October 2025Micron’s proxy identified Mehrotra as Chairman, President and CEO, and disclosed Vanguard, BlackRock, and Capital World Investors as beneficial owners above 5%.11
9 June 2026Micron appointed Alexis Black Björlin to its board, bringing the board to nine directors.12
2026Current registry data reports an annual-report event for Micron Technology Israel Ltd.; Micron’s careers page and Tel Aviv-associated recruitment support continuing publicly represented Israeli R&D-and-sales activity.1, 3, 13

Corporate Overview

Micron Technology, Inc. is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Boise, Idaho and trading as MU. Its FY2025 filing describes a semiconductor memory and storage business organized around Cloud Memory, Core Data Center, Mobile and Client, and Automotive and Embedded.10

Micron’s current public materials establish Israel-facing commercial channels through authorized distributors and a manufacturer representative. Avnet Israel, Digi-Key, Eastronics, and Mouser are listed as authorized distributors under Israel. CRG Electronics is listed at Karmiel and Petah Tikva addresses as a manufacturer representative, not as a Micron-operated facility. These listings do not identify customers, delivery locations, end use, public procurement, or settlement activity.2, 3

Micron’s current EMEA careers page states that its Israel team is dedicated to R&D and sales. A recruitment listing for an “AI Engineer – Technical Enablement” role designated remote/Tel Aviv offers further evidence of current Israel-associated recruitment. Neither source identifies an office address, legal entity, headcount, R&D outputs, customer base, revenue, or a separately disclosed Israeli R&D centre.1, 13

Historic SEC exhibits listed Micron Semiconductor Israel Ltd. as an Israeli subsidiary. Current commercial registry data identifies that entity as voluntarily liquidated. Micron’s FY2025 significant-subsidiary exhibit does not list an Israeli entity, but it permits omission of subsidiaries not significant in the aggregate; accordingly, it does not resolve the existence of a non-significant entity. Secondary registry sources indicate Micron Technology Israel Ltd. is active, but inconsistent registry renderings and the absence of an official entity extract mean its ownership and group relationship remain unverified.14, 20, 7

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of a Micron contract, tender, award, framework agreement, purchase order, shipment, service, or logistics record with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israeli intelligence services, police, prison service, border police, or another Israeli security body in the reviewed public record.8, 10, 21

Micron markets memory and storage products for aerospace-and-defence applications, including ruggedized and radiation-tolerant product categories. This establishes a general defence-oriented product line, but not an Israeli military customer, Israeli sale, Israeli weapons programme, platform integration, or security end use.15

A historical intermediary lead exists: CRG represented Micron in Israel, and CRG’s former distribution business served a mixed customer base including defence-sector customers before Avnet acquired its operating assets. This does not establish that Micron products were supplied to any defence customer, prime contractor, security body, or weapons programme.17, 22

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is the absence of a verified Israel-specific military transaction. The reviewed IMOD, SIBAT, company, distributor, representative, IAI supplier-portal, regulatory, and public-web materials did not identify Micron as an Israeli defence supplier or contractor.8, 21, 23

Micron’s distributor network and defence-oriented product marketing are insufficient to infer a downstream military supply. The distributors and representatives do not disclose customer identities, contract terms, end-user certifications, delivery locations, serialisation, quantities, or final end use. This public-record finding is not proof that no private transaction occurred.2, 3, 15

Micron’s sales terms and end-user-certification framework require certain end-use/end-user information and restrict transfers where U.S. law so requires. These general controls do not establish Israel-specific monitoring, a defence transaction, or a security-logistics relationship.24, 25

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified that Micron licenses, deploys, or integrates identified Israeli-origin enterprise-security vendors into its internal technology stack. No public evidence identified of Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometrics, behavioural analytics, predictive policing, surveillance products, managed-security deployment, or bundled surveillance functions.2, 3, 10

No public evidence identified that Micron participated in Project Nimbus as a cloud supplier, marketplace provider, systems integrator, or named subcontractor. No public evidence identified that Micron operates or leases an Israeli data centre, provides Israeli data-residency or sovereign-cloud services, or centrally processes customer data in Israeli jurisdiction.27, 19

No public evidence identified that Micron developed, sold, licensed, or maintained offensive cyber tools, digital weapons, surveillance platforms, AI/ML systems, automated tracking, autonomous target-generation, fire-control, or kill-chain systems for Israeli state, military, intelligence, or security actors.2, 3, 10

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Micron’s documented Israel relationship concerns semiconductor distribution, sales, R&D, and recruitment rather than a disclosed digital-service or surveillance relationship. Memory and storage products are not, on the reviewed record, evidence of data processing, cloud control, surveillance deployment, or a security AI system.1, 2, 3

The absence findings are bounded to reviewed public materials and do not establish that no undisclosed customer deployment or private commercial arrangement exists. They do establish that no verifiable digital nexus meeting the audit’s criteria was identified.2, 3, 10

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Micron has a documented continuing Israel nexus through R&D and sales activities, Israel-facing distributors, a manufacturer representative, and Tel Aviv-associated recruitment. This is the principal documented vector in the record.1, 2, 3, 13

Commercial registry sources report Micron Technology Israel Ltd., company no. 516067196, as active and associated with Tel Aviv–Jaffa, with a 2026 annual-report event. These are secondary registry data and do not establish the entity’s shareholders, ultimate owner, financials, workforce, parent-company control, or operational function.7, 13

Micron’s FY2020 footprint material also listed Be’er Sheva as “Customer Focus.” It did not identify an office, R&D centre, data centre, facility, workforce, legal entity, strategic role, or current status.19

No public evidence identified of a Micron manufacturing plant, data centre, logistics hub, occupied-territory real-estate holding, Israeli government award, Preferred Technology Enterprise designation, or Israel-specific revenue, profit, tax, workforce, asset, capital-expenditure, or production-capacity data in the reviewed materials.10, 2, 3

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The available evidence does not support characterising the Israeli activity as a large manufacturing investment, significant R&D centre, public-sector programme, settlement operation, or quantified economic contribution. The current presence is established, but its scale and strategic significance remain unquantified.1, 10, 13

No public evidence identified that Micron distributors or CRG sell into settlements, service occupied-territory sites, supply Israeli defence entities, or act as importer of record for Micron products. No public evidence identified of a Micron site, asset, contract, or customer in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights.2, 3, 1

Micron’s Kiryat Gat fabrication relationship was discontinued. Historical operations and a liquidated entity are therefore not treated as current economic activity.6, 14

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

Micron’s public-policy materials focus on semiconductor manufacturing, incentives, immigration, trade, intellectual property, supply-chain resilience, energy, and environmental policy. The reviewed text does not establish an Israel-, Palestine-, boycott-, or settlement-specific corporate position.4

Micron reports U.S. political activity through corporate-contribution and Employee PAC disclosures and assigns board-level oversight of lobbying and political activity. Its 2024-Q4 LD-2 reported lobbying expenses concerning U.S. semiconductor, tax, permitting, competitiveness, appropriations, and related policy matters; it did not describe Israel-, Palestine-, anti-BDS-, or settlement-specific lobbying.5, 28

The Micron Employee PAC is an active corporate PAC. Its reviewed filings identify U.S. political contributions but do not identify an Israel-, Palestine-, anti-BDS-, settlement-, IDF-, FIDF-, JNF/KKL-, or AIPAC-related recipient.29, 30

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of Micron corporate political giving, lobbying, advocacy, financing, sponsorship, crisis programme, or logistics mobilisation directed to Israeli state bodies, the IDF, settlement organizations, military-welfare funds, or state-aligned relief organizations.4, 5, 29

Micron states that it does not engage in political giving outside the United States. Its giving materials do not identify Israel/Palestine-related Foundation grants or employee-matched donations. However, Foundation grant-recipient schedules and matching records were unavailable in the reviewed retrievals; the question is unresolved rather than disproved.31, 32

No public evidence identified in the bounded review of Micron leaders, directors, disclosed major shareholders, and founders of a supportable public Israel/Palestine statement, donation, advocacy role, board affiliation, investment, or Israeli military-welfare/settlement support. This was not a comprehensive investigation of private holdings, personal records, or all historical filings.11, 12

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic5.507.009.005.50
Political3.105.109.002.26

Economic is the maximum domain because the reviewed record documents current Israel-facing R&D, sales, recruitment, and commercial channels, while the scale remains unquantified. Political reflects the documented governance and political-engagement framework but no substantiated Israel/Palestine-specific political conduct. The V6.5 assessment is scale-free, evidence-only, and human-vetted; zero military and digital scores reflect the absence of verified qualifying evidence, not proof of universal non-involvement.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://www.micron.com/about/careers/emea ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  2. https://www.micron.com/sales-support/sales-network/authorized-distributors ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15

  3. https://www.micron.com/sales-support/sales-network/find-a-manufacturer ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15

  4. https://www.micron.com/about/company/public-policy ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. https://assets.micron.com/adobe/assets/urn%3Aaaid%3Aaem%3Acc3a5b16-05c6-410e-856e-6dc95ffdff00/original/as/micron-political-engagement-principles-governance-and-transparency.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. https://investors.micron.com/static-files/f9565f91-e3f7-46c8-b160-465617b16619 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  7. https://en.checkid.co.il/company/MICRON%2BTECHNOLOGY%2BISRAEL%2B%2BLTD-1aVNgJ2-516067196 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  8. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/Exhibitions/DEFEA/Documents/ISRAEL%20at%20DEFEA%202025%20updated.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  9. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩

  10. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723125/000072312525000028/mu-20250828.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  11. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723125/000072312525000038/mu-20251125.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  12. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723125/000110465926071845/tm2617112d1_8k.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  13. https://micron.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/AI-Engineer---Technical-Enablement---remote-Tel-Aviv_JR110493 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  14. https://en.checkid.co.il/company/MICRON%2BSEMICONDUCTOR%2BISRAEL%2BLTD-3PJ3oNV-514032986 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  15. https://www.micron.com/markets-industries/industrial/aerospace-defense ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  16. https://getfilings.com/sec-filings/100409/MICRON-TECHNOLOGY-INC_10-Q/exhibit_10-88.htm ↩

  17. https://ir.avnet.com/static-files/865bb940-22e8-41d8-8bd0-b6479ec49fdb ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  18. https://investors.micron.com/news/press-release/2019/Micron-Introduces-Comprehensive-AI-Development-Platform-10-24-2019/default.aspx ↩

  19. https://investors.micron.com/static-files/4e804fd6-fc0f-440a-b8d4-9f0c16215aa2 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  20. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/723125/000072312513000228/a2013q4ex211subsidiariesof.htm ↩ ↩2

  21. https://mod.gov.il/en/departments/defense-procurement-directorate-dpd ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  22. https://techtime.co.il/2012/08/02/%D7%90%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%98-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C-%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%A9%D7%94-%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%9B%D7%9C-%D7%A4%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A6%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D/ ↩ ↩2

  23. https://www.iai.co.il/suppliers/ ↩ ↩2

  24. https://www.micron.com/app-settings/euc-form ↩

  25. https://www.micron.com/content/dam/micron/global/public/corporate/legal/terms-conditions/terms-conditions-sales.pdf ↩

  26. https://www.easx.co.il/manufacturers/micron/ ↩

  27. https://www.mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/he/news/details/111222 ↩ ↩2

  28. https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/8e38ab31-5375-4b25-80af-b214013d0827/print/ ↩

  29. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00443671/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  30. https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/519/202508129789463519/202508129789463519.pdf ↩ ↩2

  31. https://www.micron.com/about/sustainability/micron-gives ↩ ↩2

  32. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/820516178/202621199349100522/full ↩ ↩2

  33. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/19 ↩

  34. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩