Micron Drops Consumer Sales

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This is not good news. Will they return to the consumer market once the AI bubble pops?

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Who cares? I certainly wont support them.

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Samsung all the way :ok_hand:t2:. I like their ssd’s/nvme and memories :heart_eyes:

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OneUI for their phones is great to.

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Why not. They do make great products.

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It has nothing to do with the product it has to do with the fact that they just gave me a big middle finger and said my money isn’t as good as someone elses. So screw’em. I hope they spend every second chasing money they never catch.

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Meanwhile on the other side. The price tag is going crazy :smiling_face_with_tear:

https://wccftech.com/asgard-launches-256-gb-ddr5-memory-kit-at-the-price-of-nvidia-rtx-5090/

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AMD Ryzen chief teases return of older Zen 3 chips to fight soaring RAM prices — ‘That’s something we’re actively working on right now’

In a round-table interview Tom’s Hardware attended at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, AMD’s David McAfee was discussing the sorry state of the ongoing chip crisis, and he let out a hint that AMD could bring back older AM4 desktop chips, presumably 5000-series Ryzen processors and APUs based on the Zen 3 architecture.

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Sounds more like desperation rather than real help. Desperate to sell CPUs in in form just to keep money coming in.

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That it may be. But if there’s a need and business meets it, I can’t really hold that against them.

I’m still on the AM4 platform. I’m not sure if this sort of things spells hope for a simpler upgrade path for me or not. But it’s an interesting development.

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And then they’ll come crawling back to their abandoned customers, calling customers consumers also shows they have not respect for the people that buy their products.

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Looks like Nvidia is going to do the same kind of thing

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…we could also bring the latest generation AI technology to the previous generation GPUs…

So, they want to ruin old GPUs as well?

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Nvidia build a 95% GPU monopoly in the consumer market on the back on these features. Maybe that fact hasn’t penetrated the AI luddite bubble yet. It’s what people want and are buying.

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in 2035 we will all run linux on cheap AI Server machines.

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It seems to be the way they’d like us to go. Everything is a service. Everything has a subscription. [Insert well known quote about owning nothing here]

It’s possible to run private and powerful open-source LLM’s on your own hardware, but it requires two essential resources to really be useful:

  1. One or more GPU’s with substantial amounts of VRAM.
  2. Gratuitous amounts of RAM.

CPU is also important, but the GPU in ideal scenarios really does the heavy lifting there.

Isn’t it interesting that while the market is pushing everyone towards “AI”, the market is simultaneously making it harder for people to do this themselves.

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i mean .. after the bubble pops :bubbles: we will get cheap second hand AI Servers on ebay to run Linux on them :wink:

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Please [quote=“thefrog, post:32, topic:76784, full:true”]
Looks like Nvidia is going to do the same kind of thing

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Please fix the mess that is the Nvidia drivers, first. And give better support. This AI/Gen AI is turning out to be a big hype and bubble.

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Most of this CRAP doesn’t actually have anything AI in it at all regardless of claims otherwise. Still waiting for the AI Pumpkin Spice Muffin. AI I avoid like the plague, and Pumpkin Spice I’ve never had.

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