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Posted by simlevesque 9 hours ago

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business(investors.micron.com)
378 points | 187 commentspage 4
nix0n 4 hours ago|
First, AI took all the hype.

Now, AI is taking all the RAM.

Soon, AI will be taking all the electricity.

gjvc 3 hours ago|
i don't know why you are getting downvoted, as power planning is a real problem right now when planning new data center builds.
IAmGraydon 1 hour ago||
Hard to believe Micron leadership is this stupid, but here we are. They’ll deserve the result.
dzonga 3 hours ago||
consumers getting told 'get fucked' in 2025 is the motto of the day while companies chase those juicy a.i profits

well hopefully we see more proliferation of system of chips / unified architectures such as the one offered by apple being offered by amd, intel etc for consumer stuff.

palmotea 7 hours ago||
When richer people than you want things, those things can become unavailable to you (or at least less available).

I really hope this bubble pops, all these investors lose their shirts, and prices come down to something reasonable.

mfost 4 hours ago||
This mostly means richer people have too much money if they can do that.

What's next, a new tech allowing you to turn food into money at a rate nobody can afford to eat anymore?

GCUMstlyHarmls 1 hour ago||
Universal p̶a̶p̶e̶r̶c̶l̶i̶p̶ Money Machine. I'd probably read that short story.
Night_Thastus 6 hours ago|||
When it eventually does, they'll just come up with something else. Nvidia got a taste of inflated prices from the Crypto and then AI, and they're not going to just let that go. If nothing exists they'll make something and hype it endlessly to try to keep this going.
thway15269037 5 hours ago||
Then I sure hope Nvidia completely ceases to exist, like SGI, who, ironically, was decimated by Nvidia and cheap consumer hardware.
Night_Thastus 3 hours ago||
Unlikely. Unless some new technology comes around that completely invalidates existing GPUs and Nvidia cannot pivot to it quickly enough, there's just no way. They're too big, too rich, too powerful. They basically own the dedicated GPU market, with AMD holding maybe a piddly 10% at best.
bilegeek 2 hours ago||
Once the bubble pops, there will be a recession, lots of regular people will lose their jobs and won't be able to afford anything even IF prices come down.

They've got you coming and going.

Crontab 5 hours ago||
That's a shame. I liked buying RAM from them.
goo 4 hours ago||
Micron leadership probably just heard about Roko's basilisk.
shirro 4 hours ago|
Like Pascal's wager that absurdity is an appeal to stupidity. I expect the people running these companies are more interested in a different type of wager. One where they risk the future of the company to pump shares and make a quick profit.
MisterTea 4 hours ago||
I hate everything about this. Nothing good is coming from this AI hype bubble.
donatj 4 hours ago||
This seems like a very short-sighted mistake...

The AI memory bubble is going to bust eventually. They have such enormous brand recognition and are known for selling a quality-first product.

To just throw that all away is insane.

For the last ten plus years I have only bought Crucial RAM. I am well beyond disapointed to hear this.

pwnna 3 hours ago|
Does this impact the western digital and SanDisk brands too? IIRC those brands got folded into Crucial.
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