Fuck AI, truly. This timeline is getting really bad.

Btw: Shouldn't some other company enter the consumer market when consumers (and consumer serving distributors etc.) are in need of electronics? The invisible hand of the market and so.

When the bubble pops or deflates, it'd be lowkey funny to see them go : "Heyyyy ! Remember me ? Good old Crucial ? I'm back on the consumer market !"

Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer

Ah for fuck's sake.

Well. They'll either be back soon, after the inevitable collapse of the AI industry, or they'll go out of business.

First EVGA and now Crucial? What's next, is Seasonic gonna throw in the towel?

I just made a PC with 2 of their drives.

RAM prices have only gone up a lot over the past 6 months or so. I don’t buy their excuse, something else is going on that makes them want to exit the consumer market.

900,000 wafers of DRAM per month

does it keep expanding or

I'm shocked, SHOCKED I say that they chose profit over people.

Sales were likely dismal on the consumer end so Micron saying they're focusing on AI is their excuse to keep investors from panicking. People aren't buying and building PCs like they used to. This was happening with or without AI, though it would have probably happened a good bit later.

I'm tempted to hope that this is going to be better overall, as having one company highly focused on making memory for specifically AI datacenters will probably be a bit more efficient than every memory company doing both at the same time, meaning the other companies could theoretically focus more on consumer markets...

But I think we all know the reality is that they'll probably just end up convincing other businesses to do the same, RAM prices will inflate even higher, memory costs for AI datacenters will multiply as well, but the infinite money pit of AI investment will just lead to the chips being bought regardless.

I bought a set of RAM before the price hike started and they have been my go to for SSDs, m.2s but i'll gladly tell them to go fuck themselves when they inevitably come back begging people to buy their stuff.