After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers - Ars Technica

I've bought a number of Crucial memory sticks over the years. The massive demand for memory for AI means no more consumer product.

The fault lies squarely at the feet of AI mania in the tech industry. The construction of new AI infrastructure has created unprecedented demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), the specialized DRAM used in AI accelerators from Nvidia and AMD. Memory manufacturers have been reallocating production capacity away from consumer products toward these more profitable enterprise components, and Micron has presold its entire HBM output through 2026.

Frankly this sucks. The same thing has happened in the GPU market. The margins and revenue are higher selling to large data centers and huge buyers. But the impact to the DIY market to build your own computers is terrible.