Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business by February 2026, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips for AI data centers, amid a supply shortage
because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics : Micron to exit the consumer memory and storage market in favor of AI data center customers VideoCardz.com : Micron ends Crucial consumer SSD and RAM line, shifts focus to AI and enterprise Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers Darren Allan / TechRadar : The PC component crisis just got worse, as major RAM maker gives up on consumers and CPU price hikes are rumored Jesse ‘Doncabesa’ Norris / XboxEra : Xbox Era Headlines for December 4th, 2026 Chris Mellor / Blocks and Files : Micron makes Crucial decision: Farewell João Silva / KitGuru : Micron kills Crucial brand to focus on AI data centre segment Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Micron kills Crucial RAM and SSDs to chase AI boom Anurag Chawake / The Indian Express : Micron ends ‘Crucial’ RAM sales to focus on AI: What led to it, how it affects consumers Trader Edge / Blockonomi : Micron (MU) Stock Falls as Memory Chipmaker Exits Consumer Business to Focus on AI Race James Archer / Rock, Paper, Shotgun : One of PC gaming's key RAM manufacturers aren't selling to regular humans anymore, so they can peddle more kit to AI companies Jose Enrico / Tech Times : Micron Retires Crucial Brand: Are Budget SSDs and RAM About to Disappear? Rishaj Upadhyay / Windows Report : Micron Pulls Out of Consumer SSD & RAM Market, Retires Crucial Brand After 29 Years Sumit Adhikari / SammyGuru : Micron Retires Crucial to Focus on AI Memory — Samsung Should Pay Attention DigiTimes : Micron exits consumer memory market as structural chip shortage hits Samuel Willetts / Club386 : RIP Crucial - Micron kills off beloved SSD and RAM brand as AI makes more money Dashveenjit Kaur / AI News : AI memory hunger forces Micron's consumer exodus: A turning point in semiconductor economics Vyom Ramani / Digit : Crucial RAM is dead, blame it on AI: Why Micron is shifting its memory priorities Micron Technology, Inc. : Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business Wes Fenlon / PC Gamer : The RAM crisis is just getting started: Micron makes the ‘difficult decision’ to abandon the consumer memory business to focus on supplying AI data centers NDTV Profit : Micron To Discontinue Crucial RAMs And SSDs, Pivot Focus To AI Data Centres Gloria Levine / 80 Level : Micron Decided to Stop Selling RAM to Simple PC Owners in Order to Focus on AI Companies Naomi Li Gan / Tech in Asia : Micron to exit consumer memory business Scott Younker / Tom's Guide : RAM crisis continues to worsen — Micron kills Crucial consumer memory in favor of AI data centers Tobias Mann / The Register : Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches Brendan Lowry / Windows Central : We just lost a huge RAM and SSD manufacturer to AI — Micron is killing Crucial after nearly 30 years to support “larger, strategic customers” X: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : It is so weird/difficult for me to watch the arc of the PC. This is starting to look like the (custom) PC is like a vintage car with expensive harder to find parts. Was on a plane Monday talking with person next to me. In my working life I've gone from having to explain what software was, what Microsoft was, and what a mouse was, and even what the internet was. Then to the awe of “you work at Microsoft can you help me with Word numbers” to the eyeroll “monopolist”, and this week..."I've never used a PC". What an arc. I never would have expected that. Kami / @okami13_ : There's only 3 main companies that make consumer RAM chips and one of them just bounced for AI. @markusdd5 : Woah! WHAT. Micron is exiting consumer DDR memory supply through the Crucial brand. I did not see that one coming. That is horrible news for consumer PC hardware prices. @grummz : Micron just made the RAM crisis go nuclear. They supplied up to 15% of consumer RAM through their popular Crucial brand. Others are likely to follow. [image] @pcbuilderjason : I'm not sure people - especially outside the PC Enthusiast space - are prepared for how much AI is going to screw consumers starting next year. Laptops, desktops, Phones, tablets - anything that uses RAM or NAND Storage. And the worst part - AI is just a big pyramid scheme. @hsvsphere : The third RAM manufacturer has turned into dust, the remaining 2 (Samsung, Hynix) have told that they're not gonna sell to consumers either. I don't feel so good bros It's gonna be great when it all comes down and we can get ram for super cheap. Quite a bit until that though. @iancutress : It's all going on today. @MicronTech announced that it is winding down its @CrucialMemory and storage consumer brands. It will continue to ship through to fiscal Q2 (Feb 2026), and provide support. This is being driven by the need to move that supply and support AI and datacenter customers in faster-moving segments. I expect Micron will still sell chips to third parties to build into consumer parts, but it will no longer do so under its own brand. Andreas Schilling / @aschilling : This is really a bad sign for consumers and might lead to even higher prices in the near future - even though @MicronTech will still supply the OEM market. AI is sucking up everything by the look of things. https://investors.micron.com/ ... [image] Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It's already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging https://www.theverge.com/... Jake Landau / @jakelandauto : This is incredibly bad for the price of consumer electronics, Samsung and SK Hynix now hold a duopoly on RAM, and both of them are South Korean which increases geopolitical risk as well. @humanfactured : @shinobi602 I genuinely feel like corporations end game is making it impossible to own personal computers and hardware and lease/rent everything to you. Everything will mirror the housing market @shinobi602 : @SrJPG Samsung and SK Hynix are basically the two big dogs @srjpg : @shinobi602 Who is gonna make ram for consumer devices then? LinkedIn: William Lam : Damn! More bad news for consumer memory 😭 — “It will halt the sale of the “Crucial” unit's consumer-branded products at retailers … Bluesky: Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken.com : This is shocking to me. Then again, I'm not sure when I last bought a RAM upgrade. — (In the 90s, Micron made some good PCs.) www.theverge.com/news/837594/ ... Sean Hollister / @seanhollister : End of an era. Crucial was *the* pick for bang-for-the-buck SSDs, not to mention the memory biz. www.theverge.com/news/837594/ ... Mastodon: Allison / @aparrish@friend.camp : you know i'd never stopped to consider how annoying tulip mania must have been for folks who just wanted to grow a few pretty flowers in their front garden https://arstechnica.com/... 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