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After Nearly 30 Years, Crucial Will Stop Selling RAM to Consumers
Micron will stop selling Crucial consumer memory products globally by February 2026 to focus on high-margin AI data center memory amid a global shortage.
- On Dec 3, Micron Technology said it will exit its consumer business, halting Crucial product sales worldwide while continuing shipments until February 2026.
- Amid tight global memory supply chains, Micron Technology has long shifted emphasis to high-bandwidth memory, prioritizing pricier, higher-margin HBM for AI data centers.
- Micron reported HBM revenue grew to nearly $2 billion in the August quarter, implying nearly $8 billion annualized, while Sumit Sadana said `The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage`.
- Micron said Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business to support larger customers, and the company intends to reduce impact on team members through redeployment opportunities.
- AI chips' memory needs show Nvidia GB200 and Google's Ironwood TPU require 192GB, while AMD MI350 uses 288GB of HBM, with analysts saying SK Hynix supplies Nvidia and Micron supplies AMD.
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Another Ai Victim: Crucial Closes because Ssd and Ram for Consumers No Longer Interest Manufacturers
A worrying news for users of computer products, which we are all: Crucial, the popular brand of SSD and RAM focused on consumers disappears because Micron is going to focus on memories for AI, which are more lucrative.Artificial intelligence is keeping all the memory for its data centers, either RAM memory or storage, and this is going to be a drama for consumers.It is already being so.No memory in stock, prices have already started to shoot. Ye…
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