Earlier today, one of the biggest and perhaps saddest consumer SSD and RAM news stories hit as Micron announced that the Crucial brand of memory and drives was no longer going to be around for much longer.
While it may be sad from the consumer perspective that a reliable NAND and memory maker is no longer going to be serving us, from Micron"s point of view, this is a big opportunity as the company has confirmed that it made this "difficult decision" to focus on the much more profitable sector which happens to currently be the enterprise AI market.
As a result of the extremely high demand for RAM and related products, since AI and ML workloads absolutely love to gobble down memory, the prices of RAM kits, be it DDR5 or DDR4, is very very high right now, and many of their stocks are running very dry so in case of price drops or cuts, the products are not really lasting on shelves for very long.
Alongside RAM, graphics cards are also expected to be hit with price hikes very soon since the demand for them are also very high since GPUs do inferencing and other AI computation tasks very fast. Besides the GPU"s core, the memory is also going to be affected in case memory chips go up in prices.
Besides those, SSDs may also see price hikes, and thus, any component that is related to memory or can solve AI problems fast, are going to remain in major demand.
Rather surprisingly, it is also being reported that AMD"s Ryzen processors could also be seeing a price increase, and it could happen very very soon. According to a report by OC3D which, citing sources familiar with matter, claims that Ryzen is set to get quite expensive. The report expected that prices for Ryzen would start looking up by the midnight of December 1, 2025, though that did not happen as prices are still stable.
However, it may still happen and so this might be a wise time to pick one up in case of a bump up. Head over to Amazon at this link to see if you like anything.
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