After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers

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• schwim@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yep, most people buy laptops even if they don't really need one, nobody wants to be in a spot where they can't carry their workstation around.

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• Eternal192@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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