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Micron's consumer SSD and RAM brand, which Micron wound down in early 2026 to focus memory supply on AI and data centre customers.
Tom's Hardware data cited by dev.to puts a 64GB DDR5 kit at $1,118 in August 2026, up 485% from $191 a year earlier. Chipmakers say supply stays tight into 2028, but Citi expects prices to peak in Q2 2027.
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Global PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year in the third quarter of 2026, a drop of 15.8 million units, according to IDC. For teams planning a refresh, the memory pricing behind the fall matters more than the unit count, and IDC expects those prices to stay elevated.
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Micron's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue reached $54.23 billion, up from $11.32 billion a year earlier, on demand for memory in AI data centers. Guidance of about $61.5 billion for the next quarter makes memory pricing a cost that teams building AI hardware should plan for through 2027.
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Lip-Bu Tan told an AI infrastructure forum in Santa Clara that memory supply is delaying projects and making parts hard to secure for cheaper devices; the price multiple reported alongside him is harder to use.
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Tom's Hardware calls the 2TB drive fast and a reliable alternative, short of the fastest in its class, built on a Silicon Motion SM2508 with Kioxia's own flash. Endurance is 600TB written per terabyte, and Kioxia has no official US retail channel.
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The $10bn research lab is roughly 4% of what Micron has already committed to American plants, and about 1.6 times its CHIPS award. The signal is the horizon, not the size.
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