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Darren Allan

The PC component crisis just got worse, as major RAM maker gives up on consumers and CPU price hikes are rumored

A Crucial Pro Overclocking RAM kit.
  • Micron has pulled the plug on its Crucial consumer RAM
  • It's focusing on making RAM modules for data centers instead
  • There are further tales of trouble in the memory world besides this, and also rumors of AMD Ryzen CPU price hikes

Predictions for the pricing of PC components are becoming bleaker by the day, and now there's a bunch of fresh gloom settling on the mountainous pile of doom – the gloomiest news being that Micron is shutting down its consumer RAM division.

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