They'll be back when the AI bubble bursts.

Micron is publicly traded so they are basically required to prioritize profits.

The situation is so absurd that Samsung won't be supplying Samsung (not a typo) with memory.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/the-memory-market-is-so-screwed-right-now-that-samsung-is-negotiating-with-err-samsung-over-dram-contracts/

Oprindeligt skrevet af temps:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/

“Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments.”

Street translation "Dude stuff making RAM we can make some big time money just making HBM for OpenA.i, I'm ordering another yacht."

Survival of the richest.

Super important they don't make RAM for your gaming PCs because they need to prioritize that RAM for AI that will make you unemployed loooool

Have not seen any point in their RAM since the days of SDRAM and DDR1 anyways. Always over priced. Very little Overclock flexibility. And their SSDs are a cheap joke.

If this keeps going the gamers will be completely out of hardware soon.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Heretic:

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

What's your point?

Micron holds 25% of the RAM market and 12% of the NAND market .Sounds bad .

bad news, with hynix alteady sold all production to ai for 2026, that only leaves samssung to make ram and ssd for the coming year.
(and it remains to be seen how rare even gpu memory will become, after all nvidea already stopped selling memory with it's gpu chips (meaning less gpu production, and forcing smaller producters off the gpu market)
and we most likely won't see that 24GB 5080 super...
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when do we get laws to kill this AI madness..

I mean even something thats ACTUALLY beneficially for manking (unlike AI thats better if never excisting).. like nucleair fusion research, does not purchase more than 5-10% of the global production of semiconductors, even if that delays that research into potentially limiteless clean energy, as to not disturb the market for everybody else needing that material.

no one party should have the right to HOARD a resource like that.. just as antitrust laws prevent a compagny from becoming to big/to monopoly.. we also should have laws that prevent 1 project/purpose from sucking up to much resources from everybody else..

if you buy up so much that you distrupt an entire pc industry this much (and well you bet this will hurt many other industries in time to as everything needs chips these days).. than you need to be capped in that...

With so many big players withdraw from this particular industry, anyone wants to start a electronic manufacturing company?

Oprindeligt skrevet af C1REX:

Micron is publicly traded so they are basically required to prioritize profits.

The situation is so absurd that Samsung won't be supplying Samsung (not a typo) with memory.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/the-memory-market-is-so-screwed-right-now-that-samsung-is-negotiating-with-err-samsung-over-dram-contracts/

The same Samdung that shoehorned a pointless chatbot into their SSD health monitor?

I only ever used Samsung Magician to enable RAPID Mode for C Drive and that's when using all SATA drives. Otherwise it's pointless to install that.

I can use CrystalDiskInfo for all my Drive health checking needs

Very sorry to see Crucial leave the consumer market. I always used Crucial in all my rigs. I've got 3 p5 plus nvme installed on my current rig and they are excellent performers, and funny to say, they also give me a good and positive vibe owning them. I also prize my crucial Ballistik 3600MT/s 4x8gb 32gb ddr4 ram.

I have to say, things are looking grim for pc enthusiasts. If the 4090 and 5090 was out of reach for the majority of gamers, I'm confident the 6090 will shock everyone.