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Crucial to be shut down by Micron.
PureVoltage
Member, Patron Provider
Didn't see anything posted here about it so figured I'd share the news that Micron is killing off the Crucial lineup after basically 30 years.
"Dear Valued Partner,
I want to follow up on the announcement Micron shared this morning regarding our decision to exit the Crucial consumer product business, including the sale of Crucial consumer-branded products at key retailers, e-tailers and distributors.
The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage, creating a significant gap between supply and demand. This environment has required Micron to make the difficult decision to exit our Crucial consumer product business. Micron will continue to support the sale of Micron-branded enterprise products to commercial channel customers globally."
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Oh wow, fuck
That's sad for consumers
Yes sir, pretty insane that they didn't just put a pause on things or raise prices even more. But killing it off completely is kind of nuts.
Even Nvidia is still making GPU's or consumers even though it's maybe 5-10% of their business.
Been using them for as long as I can remember. Sad to see the consumers getting f'd.
Surprising news indeed https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business
Sooooo anyone got any used server recyclers I can buy used ddr4 from at this point? I hope micron comes crawling back to us after the bubble pops.
Fuck you AI.
It's time to shut down LowEndTalk. 🛑
For years this community been idling an equivalent of OpenAI, Antropic, and Gemini computing power combined.
Time to put it to use. All those machines could be gathering personal data, automating mass surveillance, generating "Hello, world!" code snippets, rendering naked elvish queens and little pony dickpics, delivering asbestos-free muffin recipes to housewives.
Time to put that power into the hands of those who will adapt it to the needs of the real people, not ephemeral "chicken collectors" and push-up directors.
Oh shit
We hereby call on the following users to cancel all their hundreds of idle VPS:
@zGato @gbzret4d @Decicus @sh97 @FAT32
@FAT32 should be additionally punished for facilitating all that outrage during a so-called "Black Fridays".
Just the name of those events alone suggests their potential link to fascism.
Insult to injury: the email where your provider announces that your VPSs double in price will come written by AI, like promo emails are.
I am seeing literal daily price increases for RAM from our suppliers.
A typical Ryzen server is now $500 more per unit than it was just 60 days ago due to RAM pricing.
Wow, to do such as decision, they are really excepting the memory price surge to last for years...
Such short term thinking, think of the years of good will/trust the Crucial brand built up..
Do they really think the YoY upgrades/builds people do on their PCs, Laptops etc will just disappear? Monetary value might be insignificant compared to what they see with short term "AI" related demand, but consumer purchases YoY (count even companies refreshing employee systems) every other year, all of this did account for a strong financial foundation these memory companies operated on top of.
It's beyond crazy to imagine that "extraordinary surge in demand" would cause a company in a completely different category of the market (consumer facing) to dip out of the market when they themselves manufacture the components.
but then again, you see also things like how Samsung "mobile" isn't getting preferential treatment by Samsung "memory" for the upcoming S26 .. beyond hilarious how just being a different "legal" entity causes all this to happen when "extraordinary surge in demand profit" comes into play..
https://www.sammobile.com/news/rift-emerges-between-samsung-phone-memory-divisions/
ECC unbuffered, the type mounted on Ryzen, is the variant of DDR4 that appreciated the most.
brother, utta nosense.
I paid 30€ for 16GB DDR4 with shipping, now its 110€ with shipping.
15 years ago I bought my first SSD, it was the Crucial C300 64GB. The large local retailer where I usual got my PC parts from but they didn't have it in catalog. Usually that meant you were out of luck but I tried anyway and asked them if they can add it and ship one to me. They agreed and couple days later I got it.
Those were the days when they were still happy to help and offered good prices and services. Since then they got bought by another big brand which slowly killed the business and about year ago they shut down for good. Way to go from 1st/2nd biggest computer hardware/electronics company in the country to nothing.
Are you me? I bought that exact 64GB SSD with the money I got from my first job about 15 years ago lol.
4TB Crucial T500 running well in my laptop.
Time to get some more idlers to feel better until prices reaches highs i cant afford anymore
Where can i bet for the crash of the AI bubble?
Only a few will survive
So far I got price increases for:
And this is just from December...
When will this bubble pop...
Not sure to be honest if it will pop or not. It's big money and I don't feel like ai is really going to go anywhere but grow from here.
But it has to slow down hopefully.
Agree.
The best thing for consumers is if Chinese manufacturers will mass produce DDR5 and not get sanctions/export banned by the US government. China will sell to anyone and produce it cheaper.
This is from 1 week ago:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/chinas-banned-memory-maker-cxmt-unveils-surprising-new-chipmaking-capabilities-despite-crushing-us-export-restrictions-ddr5-8000-and-lpddr5x-10667-displayed
Relevant:
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/memory-crisis-and-sky-high-dram-prices-could-run-past-2028-as-samsung-and-sk-hynix-opt-to-minimize-the-risk-of-oversupply/
As long as people don't buy at such high prices, it'll go down. But who am I kidding, there's a constant demand so unless people go back to DDR3 (which won't happen thanks to Windows 11), it'll be like this for a while.
They said why they increase the price?