US EditionAfter nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers
Micron will cease Crucial consumer RAM and SSD sales by February 2026 to meet soaring AI data center demand, with HBM revenue nearing $8 billion annually, CEO said.
- Micron plans to stop selling memory to consumers and focus on meeting demand for high-powered artificial intelligence chips.
- Memory, used by computers to store data for short periods, is facing a global shortage while demand for AI chips that use large amounts of advanced memory is increasing.
- Micron competes against SK Hynix and Samsung in the high-bandwidth memory market but is the only U.S.-based memory supplier.
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technewstube.comMicron exits consumer market with Crucial phase-out amid shift to AI-driven memory demand
Micron announced it will phase out its Crucial brand's consumer memory and SSD products by February 2026, marking its exit from the nearly 30-year-old consumer market. This move reflects the industry's pivot toward high-margin DDR5 and HBM for AI applications, driven by surging GPU and AI chip demands.
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After nearly 30 years, Micron is shutting down Crucial and leaving the consumer RAM market
Micron is exiting the consumer RAM market, retiring the Crucial brand, and restructuring its business around the needs of enterprise AI customers. According to the company's press release, the US-based memory manufacturer will continue selling Crucial products until the end of its second fiscal quarter in February 2026.Read Entire Article
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