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Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
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The memory that manufacturers are producing is HBM; they're transitioning facilities that had been producing memory for DIMMs to producing HBM. HBM won't be in DIMM form factor
you can't just stick it into the slots on a PC motherboard.
Not with that attitude