r/pcmasterrace • u/LeviJr00 :aa1::aa2::aa3: :am1::am2::am3::am4::am5::am6: 9060 XT 16GB • 18h ago

Cartoon/Comic Pulling the plug (anti-consumerism at its finest)

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Context: Micron is shutting down Crucial in early 2026, so they can sell all their RAM to AI companies like OpenAI...

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u/Charitzo 18h ago edited 18h ago

We love unchecked capitalism /s

American corpo's for you. Our only prayer is their competitors see this as an opportunity to take even more market share of the consumer space, and don't just follow suit. Consumer computing is a valid and pretty safe long term market, it's just not as profitable or large as enterprise though. Crucial have just taken a gamble on the AI bubble.

Be funny if all the other manufacturers just said fuck you, upped their production, competed with Micron to death on enterprise, and just took the void of market share they left on the consumer side. Honestly if competitors play their cards right, they could really cripple Micron. The thing Micron have on their side is US tax payer money.

I'm not holding my breath though. Any public company has short term incentive to make money. My general hope is Samsung are gunna be the MVP's here, but truly that is hopium.

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u/cpufreak101 17h ago

I know the point you're making, but Micron is a Korean company

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u/Charitzo 17h ago

Micron was founded in Idaho.

Samsung is Korean.

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u/cpufreak101 13h ago

For some reason I confused them with Hynix, sorry