Cyberpunk wasn’t supposed to be a prophecy. It was meant to be a warning.
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Submitted 16 hours ago by tonytins@pawb.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/837594/crucial-ram-ssd-micron-ai
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devolution@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
So was:
1984, Brave New World, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Bladerunner) and other pk dick novels/film adaptations, , etc.
naught101@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Those are all great books/stories. But they are all off the mark for the AI bubble.
The book you wanna read is John Steinbeck’s The Grapes Of Wrath.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Not according to Elmo. He sees it as his destiny
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 16 hours ago
Nnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Ridiculous. I couldn’t name a more trusted brand of RAM.
Jarix@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
You should probably start lieing about that and taint the brand as much as possible. Probably won’t do much but we should all just start saying everywhere that is a great thing because crucial sucked anyways.
butter_tart@piefed.ca 8 hours ago
Kingston
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 14 hours ago
All I can do is pray that my current RAM survives long enough for this stupid AI bubble to burst, like with the Crypto-Bro GPUs.
But it is kind of horrifying how easily consumers have been priced out of the RAM market - at least for newer stuff anyways
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
I’m good as far as amounts are concerned (32 GB; on a DDR4 platform), though I still wanted to upgrade to 64 for the sake of not needing to swap when running a bunch of things at once.
Now I think I’m just going to wait for DDR6 and upgrade my entire setup because it’s going to take a few years and by then the AI bubble should’ve popped already.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Last weekend my PC didn’t start up, it was beeping an error code. I was so scared of it being a memory issue while diagnosing.
But luckily it was a video error code. And after swapping out the GPU and still getting the beep, even more luckily, it turned out to be the display being stuck in a bad state and just needing a reboot.
Jarix@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I might upgrade to GabeCube from my current rig i7 6820k from 10 years ago, but still a year or 2 away from replacing this rig.
I also hope my RAM survives. Good luck friend! This rando from Lemmy wishes you the best (if I win a lottery I’ll buy you a new rig!)
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I both fear and can’t wait for the ai pop. Please come sooner rather than later.
58008@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
AI, along with crypto, is getting to the point where even oil executives are like “dudes, the planet…”
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
They’d be full of shit because oil products are still by far the biggest pollutant afaik
gperson@programming.dev 15 hours ago
First it was GPUs, and now it’s RAM.
This seriously sucks. Maybe I’ll have to stick with my mom’s laptop for a little while longer if prices are going to be impacted (which I having a feeling they probably will be unless they already are).
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Are you fucking kidding me? Holy fucking hell.
danh2os@piefed.social 15 hours ago
They told us us to buy computers in 2024 in case this happens. Here we are.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
Is free market capitalism turning into a communist planned shortage economy?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That’s OK, I wouldn’t dream of buying American RAM anyway.
tonytins@pawb.social 15 hours ago
Personally, I’m willing to bite the bullet and get Samsung’s but I know not everyone can afford to do that.
saltesc@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I’m a follower and just go with Corsair Vengeance. Hasn’t ever let me down.
I think all my SSDs are Samsung. Nvme are Kingston and so I like to think they have thick Jamaican accents, mon. No issues with any of it and some of that storage is getting real old.
9point6@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Damn I’ve bought a lot of crucial stuff over the years
I assume they’re my current memory kit too since I pretty much always go with them
Mwa@thelemmy.club 16 hours ago
Aww man :(
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
if they weren’t already burning the economy then all ai companies should burn themselves.
db2@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This should be in nottheonion
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Cool, hope they go under with the rest if them.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Idk who or what Crucial is but sounds like they fucking suck.
tal@lemmy.today 54 minutes ago
Micron is one of the “Big Three” DRAM manufacturers.
Crucial is their “sell directly to consumers” brand.
netvaluator.com/…/top-10-ram-manufacturers-by-mar…
Micron Technology stands as the third giant, with a market share close to 20%, or about 23 billion USD in DRAM revenue. Unlike Samsung and SK Hynix, Micron is headquartered in the United States, making it a critical supplier for Western markets. Its product portfolio covers both DRAM and NAND, giving it broader exposure to the memory industry.
The company’s consumer-facing Crucial brand is well recognized among PC builders and gamers worldwide. Micron also plays a vital role in supplying DRAM for servers and AI, competing directly in the HBM space. Its strategy focuses on quality, diversification, and maintaining a stable supply chain for North America and Europe. As the only American giant, Micron is strategically important in the geopolitical landscape of semiconductors.
Tronn4@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Memory suppliers
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Lawsuit.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
You can try, but I don’t see how they’ve done anything that makes them liable to a lawsuit. I’m just adding them to my list of companies I won’t do business with when they inevitably come back to consumers after the bubble pops.
tal@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
Why? I mean, they aren’t compelled to manufacture DIMMs.
Right now, there is a window in time where there are companies willing to pay tons of money for HBM memory, more than most people and companies are for DIMMs. It’d be crazy for memory manufacturers not to make HBM if they have the capacity to do so, if they’re doing way better by doing so.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
What’s there to sue for? Companies shut down product lines and brands all the time.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 hours ago
I can call myself an AI company and write slop to prove it if questioned. Gimme RAM pls.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I am really, really glad I replaced my PC’s a year ago.
This is insane. I’m kinda sorta rooting for the crash now.