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Posted by simlevesque 12/3/2025

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business(investors.micron.com)
763 points | 392 commentspage 6
IAmGraydon 12/4/2025||
Hard to believe Micron leadership is this stupid, but here we are. They’ll deserve the result.
jakebasile 12/3/2025||
> This decision reflects Micron’s commitment to its ongoing portfolio transformation and the resulting alignment of its business to secular, profitable growth vectors in memory and storage. By concentrating on core enterprise and commercial segments, Micron aims to improve long-term business performance and create value for strategic customers as well as stakeholders.

What the fuck does "secular" even mean in this context? Is there religious DRAM?

What a short-sighted, boneheaded move. I'm so tired of the MBA-ificiation of every single part of my life.

20after4 12/3/2025||
Yes, the MBAs and private equity firms are about 80% of the way through ruining everything that was ever good in the world. They've been accelerating exponentially. Probably won't be long now. I like to think it can't get much worse but I thought that several times before and I've been proven wrong each time. Optimism is getting much harder to hold on it.
KapKap66 12/3/2025||
They didn't mess up Valve yet :)
mschuster91 12/4/2025||
Try buying GTA San Andreas on Steam - if you didn't buy it before some cutoff date a few years ago, all you can get is the shit AI textures "remaster".

Steam is a powerful force, and I applaud them for staying private and not IPO'ing - but their founders won't be around forever (hell Gabe, please transfer Steam into some sort of public-good trust or whatever, or have provisions in your will making it impossible for whomever inherits the company to enshittify), and sadly even they can't beat down on the studios too hard lest they end up like Netflix.

bigstrat2003 12/4/2025||
It's not exactly Valve's fault what Rockstar has decided to do with sales of their games.
x0x0 12/3/2025|||
secular is the opposite of cyclical in business. ie a long-term trend.

And same. Though blowing significant fractions of a trillion dollars into (imo) investments that are never gonna return anything near to making that a good plan (ex a government bailout) will inevitably redirect huge portions of stuff we care about. The world's gdp is about 90T iirc; that is basically taking 1/90th of the stuff the world does in a year and putting it into ai.

umanwizard 12/3/2025|||
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/secular
thewebguyd 12/3/2025|||
>Is there religious DRAM?

RAM optimized for TempleOS and Holy-C

jakebasile 12/4/2025||
If only this were the case.
ruralfam 12/3/2025||
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venturecruelty 12/3/2025|||
I consulted my paper dictionary, which doesn't use as much electricity as Belgium or thousands of gallons of water, and it reads: "of or relating to a long term of indefinite duration: <secular inflation>, <A secular increase in the quantity of money is required in a growing economy... – Milton Friedman>".
IAmGraydon 12/4/2025||||
Congrats on being the tone deaf baffoon of the day.
q3k 12/3/2025|||
would you kindly not
dzonga 12/4/2025||
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.

pmdr 12/4/2025||
Time to launch a RAM-renting startup, kind of like Netflix in its DVD era.
ZuLuuuuuu 12/4/2025||
Looks like Crucial is not so crucial for Micron's business anymore.
anonnon 12/5/2025||
Generative AI really is the gift that keeps on giving.
tiahura 12/4/2025||
Bad news for Boise.
fullstop 12/4/2025|
Why? Micron will still fabricate things there... just not for us.
JonChesterfield 12/3/2025|
Uh shite. That's the goto for ssds with capacitors on, such that when the power dies they're able to leave things in a reasonable state.

All the samsung ones I've tried have died within a year. Fast until they died I suppose.

Any recommendations for nvme in a post-micron world?

danparsonson 12/3/2025|
Use a UPS?
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