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Crucial exiting the consumer memory market
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I actually live 10 minutes from a Crucial depot. It was easy to nip over there when I needed RAM, but I see they've already announced its closure next month. It was all consumer distribution. Been there a long time.
I just checked the DDR5 prices in Europe, and they’re absolutely crazy! I’m glad I updated my Daughters PCs this summer. The RAM prices have more than doubled.
499€ versus 1199€ for the 96GB DDR5 6000 Set i bought this Summer.
The same PC from the Summer would cost 900€ more it was 3.900€ vs 4.800€ now.
499€ versus 1199€ for the 96GB DDR5 6000 Set i bought this Summer.
The same PC from the Summer would cost 900€ more it was 3.900€ vs 4.800€ now.
This is why I pulled the trigger on a new gaming PC. While based in Asia, so have some cushion equally the writing is on the wall. New machine will last me through the price crisis and the very obvious colapse...
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Was great times for me lol making around 50k in 2 months was plenty healthy for my pockets lol.
Again, you’re missing the point. It’s not that you profited from a dysfunctional GPU market, it’s that the GPU market was highly dysfunctional.
It’s not about you, positive or negative. I don’t care if you’re the tech equivalent if an ambulance chaser, and if you think that’s something to brag about. It’s about the bigger picture.
AI is making the RAM and NAND markets dysfunctional in the way cryptomining made the GPU market dysfunctional.
That you made a buck out of it doesn’t make it good. Looking at the bigger picture, it’s a very bad development.
In a more normal situation. Producers will increase supply to meet increased demand, and prices will eventually normalise.
But AI is not a normal situation, as financially it is a bubble driven by się ulatuje investment, not by actual return. So NAND and RAM producers will throw consumers under the bus to meet big AI enterprise order instead of increasing supply, because increasing supply means spending a lot of money, and if the bubble bursts, that’s a lot if money down the drain.
So they’ll hedge their bets, produce less consumer RAM ( as we’re seeing with Crucial, basically producing none).
This will keep pushing up RAM and NAND prices for consumers and those that resell to consumers. Any “shucking” loophole might give a short term benefit, but financial pain to consumers and resellers in the mid- to long- term.
To bring it back to the GPU examples, even when supply and demand normalised, prices of GPUs fir consumers and resellers were, and are, significantly higher, and these price points won’t ever be going back to their their previous levels.
That’s not something to cheer about.
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That what happen, did not even want it to, by putting all the extra ram sticks I had no use for up for sale.
Yeah, it is like making a profit off shortages during the pandemic. It does not make the pandemic “good times.”
It's funny, because I just ordered a Crucial RAM module yesterday for my laptop. It was quite expensive though...
Thank god I got my wife a new laptop this summer with 32gb ram upgrade, all my kids laptops for school are 16gb of ram and my desktop was built in 2023 fully kitted out. hopefully all of these will last us through this insanity. The oldest device in my house is actually my M2 MacBook Air but luckily I got that with 16gb of ram as well which is good enough for my usage. Memory pressure on that never goes out of the green zone
Try buying Mac Pro ram ECC DDR4 3200 (8x256GB for maximum 2.0TB) or DDR2933 LRDIMMs. Ridiculous prices now.
Sick of the AI nonsense.