Micron breaks ground on its ~$9.3B Hiroshima factory expansion, part of its global ramp-up to meet AI demand, and plans to start HBM shipments from summer 2028 (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-04/micron-breaks-ground-on-9-billion-western-japan-plant-expansion"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260704/i4.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260704/p4#a260704p4" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Mari Kiyohara / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-04/micron-breaks-ground-on-9-billion-western-japan-plant-expansion">Micron breaks ground on its ~$9.3B Hiroshima factory expansion, part of its global ramp-up to meet AI demand, and plans to start HBM shipments from summer 2028</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Micron Technology Inc. on Saturday broke ground on the expansion of its factory in western Japan, a &yen;1.5 trillion ($9.3 billion) &hellip; </p>