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kaiyulie Micron can respectfully eat poo. Made an account just to say that. Lurked forever, but recent moves by so many tech and software companies have been really bad and I guess today's the day that I sign up to drop unhelpful venting commentary in the comments. Micron pulling Crucial out of the consumer market is just the latest straw. I wish them the worst in whatever they do going forwards. Edit: it won't be ALL venting obv but today it is for sure 🙃 Reply
bit_user kaiyulie said: Made an account just to say that. Lurked forever, Hi! kaiyulie said: recent moves by so many tech and software companies Okay, but you understand that this particular move makes it more likely that we get a "Super" refresh of RTX 5000 GPUs, right? It just seems like an odd point to trigger such a response, but your overall sentiment is not uncommon around here. kaiyulie said: Micron pulling Crucial out of the consumer market is just the latest straw. I think the main effect of that is bad publicity, rather than making any real difference in market availability of SSDs or DIMMs. Other retail SSD and DIMM brands can & do still source chips from Micron. Had Crucial not been furloughed, they'd have had no better pricing or availability than the rest of the brands out there. Just like all the other memory makers, Micron isn't going to sell anything for below market value. Reply
Eximo More likely that they will make more Quadro and Firepro cards, and AI chips. Reply
alan.campbell99 I think it's all very well for them to come out with these new modules but how much good does it do for the consumer in the end if their production capacity is heading more and more towards HBM? Reply
Jame5 Nvidia is already taking 3GB GDDR7 chips from both Samsung and SK Hynix, and likely will start introducing Micron 3GB GDDR7 to help compensate for the outgoing NAND flash/memory shortage. Did you mean ongoing shortage? Reply
bit_user Eximo said: More likely that they will make more Quadro and Firepro cards, and AI chips. Not "Firepro", because that's on old AMD brand and RDNA4 doesn't support GDDR7. None of this helps AMD, until RDNA5 (aka UNDA) launches. Reply
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