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At the end of last year, Micron, one of the manufacturers of DRAM and NAND components for memory and storage, decided to close their Crucial subsidiary to focus entirely on the production of memory chips for the artificial intelligence and server sectors.
In an interview with technology news site WCCF Tech, Christopher Moore, Vice President of Marketing for the Mobile and Client Business Unit segment, was asked if it was true that Micron would completely shift its focus to the production of memory components for the AI sector when Crucial officially closes at the end of this month.
He said that even though Crucial has been closed, it does not mean that their production capacity will be fully focused on that sector. Micron will still produce memory components such as LPDDR5X for brands that manufacture electronic devices such as ASUS, Dell, HP, and others who still produce computer devices for the consumer segment.
Micron has also begun construction on a giant $100 billion component manufacturing plant in upstate New York that is expected to produce 40 percent of the company's total production by 2040.
There is also another plant to open in Idaho called ID1 which is due to be completed in 2027, but has said that full capacity production will not begin until 2028.
Depending on demand from the server and artificial intelligence industries, the public expectation is that the memory and storage supply issues will only start to ease around 2028, but the focus will still be on the artificial intelligence sector because the profit margins are too large to ignore.
