Oh good, computer chips are set to explode in price again

If you’ve bought a computer in the past few years, you may have noticed that RAM chips are much more expensive. Unfortunately, this situation looks set to worsen:

Micron, a major manufacturer of RAM chips, says it is exiting the consumer memory business and focusing on chips used in data centers (AI)

➡️ https://t.co/2Q1sZxOM0w

This comes amid a global memory supply shortage that has seen RAM prices quadruple in price pic.twitter.com/RmaOHg7RT4

— Shinobi602 (@shinobi602) December 3, 2025

Computer chips got RAMmed

As we reported, generative AI has failed to live up to its promise. It’s also clearly in the late stages of a speculative bubble which looks primed to burst. Additionally, the world recently discovered that seemingly:

• AI services cost a lot more to run than we thought.
• AI services make a lot less money than we thought.
• Modern data centres may not be financially viable because they have to replace their chips so often.

This makes it the strangest time for a company to abandon its profitable and useful business. Unless Micron knows something we don’t, it’s like they’re boarding the Titanic just as everyone else runs for the lifeboats.

Here’s what Micron are saying:

The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage.

Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments.

And here’s what commentators are saying:

“Difficult.”

Actual footage of Micron: https://t.co/hK3xJgXoCK pic.twitter.com/eI3cNGPW7A

— The 46th Mandalore-in-Chief (Pro-Beskar) (@Johnneh_80) December 3, 2025

If the AI bubble bursts & they come back to consumers, I wont buy a thing from Micron ever again. https://t.co/khmCZJqA6B

— itsagundam (@GundamIsHere) December 4, 2025

I wish every company pivoting towards being GenAI focused a very Duolingo valuation

Micron, looking right at you motherfuckers https://t.co/vmjBObLVKT

— Hanner (@GangstHannah) December 4, 2025

It’s going to affect the console market too, by the way:

Nobody tell him that Micron is a supplier of DRAM for PlayStation https://t.co/sgcIf299a9

— Banana Man (@OhNoItsAlexx) December 4, 2025

Inflation

The last thing the world needs right now is for another product class to massively inflate in price, and yet here we are.

Let’s hope the AI bubble bursts before Micron are able to go through with this.

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