Micron Technology’s plan to acquire Numonyx will affect Intel on both sides of the transaction, since the world’s largest microprocessor maker has a close partnership with both companies, in which Micron makes high-end NAND flash processors and Numonyx develops phase-change memory.
– In a union between two influential solid-state memory and storage players,
Micron Technology said Feb. 10 that it will acquire Numonyx for $1.27 billion
in an all-stock transaction, based on Micron’s current price of about $9 per
share.

Numonyx is a flash memory joint
venture startup created …