Micron/Crucial exit the market

[psydii]

https://www.theverge.com/news/837594/crucial-ram-ssd-micron-ai
 

this follows SK Hynix and Samsung exiting the older ddr4 market earlier in the year… (have you noticed ddr4 from recognisable brands has also been drying up?)

 

 

 

 

[nicholab]

That sad as I got my first SSD from Crucial.  We also got stack of drives from them as well.

[Roberto]

Same. I always liked crucial as a vendor that gave good value for decent goods, both personally and professionally. I guess you can't blame them for going where the money is, but what a shame.

[Davit2005]

Same here, normally Crucial was my go to brand

 

[robintech]

seems strange they would kill the brand as that must be worth a lot

[pete]

I hadn't spotted how bad the price hike had got until I saw the Ars article (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/) this morning:

 

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The surprise announcement from Micron follows a period of rapidly escalating memory prices, as we reported in November. A typical 32GB DDR5 RAM kit that cost around $82 in August now sells for about $310, and higher-capacity kits have seen even steeper increases.

 

[hallamke]

I fear the end is coming for flexible PC builds.  In the not too distant future the x86 market will go the way of Apple. Soldered / intergrated components with little upgrade potential.  We've been seeing this with lower end laptops for quite some time now.  Such a shame 😞     

[mavhc]

on the plus side, soldered ram is faster so you can better run LLMs and share ram with gpu

[msi_school]

1 hour ago, hallamke said:

I fear the end is coming for flexible PC builds.  In the not too distant future the x86 market will go the way of Apple. Soldered / intergrated components with little upgrade potential.  We've been seeing this with lower end laptops for quite some time now.  Such a shame 😞     

I think that the future of PCs looks the same as the future of Cars did in 2000.

 

More and more the device will be locked down and prevent the user from making any changes or repairs. However, there will remain a market for user upgradable computers  at a boutique price. 

[Davit2005]

That is a shame but personally I have fallen out with MS as a Client OS. Bought a MAC M2 Pro last year but built a Windows PC purely for gaming. That been said the M2 could easily run the games I like playing.