Official post: https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-deta... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137783)

My wife works for a small distributor of memory (not modules, just the chips), and their manufacturers won't even provide prices or take backorders.

I understand why they did it in the current market, but Micron's exit is going to cause retail prices to go even higher.

I used pcpartsbuilder to spec out a machine I was thinking of building a few months ago, and the DRAM that was $109 for 32GB is now $399. It's crazy.

I think I will wait for AM7 at this rate... 32GB of not the fastest DDR4 should last long enough.

There are a decent number of players in the SSD business, but not many at the top trading blows for max performance and Best Buy’s. This will not be good for the consumer market. Seems like everything is consolidating.

what's the use of "AI" if no-one can afford computers or phones?

How the heck is this going to pan out? Memory prices are already crazy high and forecasts say there is going to be no respite till end of 2026. Are people just going to stop buying devices and computers? The downstream effects of this (in a scenario where every device needs memory) are bonkers.

Terrible news, I prefer to buy US made chips if I can and Micron was a decent vendor