Thursday, February 17th 2022
Crucial to End Ballistix RAM Production and Sales
Out of nowhere, Micron has announced that it will end production of its Ballistix RAM products that are the high-performance and gamer focused RAM products from its Crucial brand. The details available so far doesn't state a reason for the discontinuation of these products. That said, Crucial has launched a wide range of DDR5 products, but so far none under the Ballistix brand and that is obviously a permanent move now. The company said it would focus on "the development of Micron's DDR5 client and server product roadmap, along with the expansion of the Crucial memory and storage product portfolio."
Furthermore the press release mentioned that "the company will continue to support the performance compute and gaming communities with its award-winning SSD products, such as the Crucial P5 Plus Gen 4 PCIe NVMe SSD, Crucial P2 Gen 3 NVMe SSD, and the popular Crucial X6 and Crucial X8 portable SSDs." It seems like Micron has decided to change the focus of it's consumer focused Crucial brand yet again, as the company has done several times in the past, but it's going to remove a major player in the consumer DRAM market, which isn't a good thing, especially as Micron was one of few DRAM manufacturers to offer high-end RAM modules, since neither Samsung or SK-Hynix is in this market. That said, it looks like Crucial will at least continue to offer its standard RAM modules, but they tend to follow JEDEC spec and aren't particularly exciting.
Updated:
Teresa Kelley, Vice President and General Manager, Micron Commercial Products Group: "We remain focused on growing our NVMe and Portable SSD product categories, which both offer storage solutions for PC and console gamers. Additionally, Crucial JEDEC standard DDR5 memory provides mainstream gamers with DDR5-enabled computers with better high-speed performance, data transfers and bandwidth than previously available with Crucial Ballistix memory."
Source:
PCPer
Furthermore the press release mentioned that "the company will continue to support the performance compute and gaming communities with its award-winning SSD products, such as the Crucial P5 Plus Gen 4 PCIe NVMe SSD, Crucial P2 Gen 3 NVMe SSD, and the popular Crucial X6 and Crucial X8 portable SSDs." It seems like Micron has decided to change the focus of it's consumer focused Crucial brand yet again, as the company has done several times in the past, but it's going to remove a major player in the consumer DRAM market, which isn't a good thing, especially as Micron was one of few DRAM manufacturers to offer high-end RAM modules, since neither Samsung or SK-Hynix is in this market. That said, it looks like Crucial will at least continue to offer its standard RAM modules, but they tend to follow JEDEC spec and aren't particularly exciting.
Teresa Kelley, Vice President and General Manager, Micron Commercial Products Group: "We remain focused on growing our NVMe and Portable SSD product categories, which both offer storage solutions for PC and console gamers. Additionally, Crucial JEDEC standard DDR5 memory provides mainstream gamers with DDR5-enabled computers with better high-speed performance, data transfers and bandwidth than previously available with Crucial Ballistix memory."
85 Comments on Crucial to End Ballistix RAM Production and Sales
Maybe they'll return with some other offering once the DDR5 market settles for good.
I even got 3667 @ CL14 Stable on my 1700X.
Another victim of our pursuit of imaginary wealth.
They also have a ton of "regular" Crucial branded DDR5 memory for sale.
I been using Crucial memory for nearly 10 years, and with my current new PC i went with them again. Heck, even all my SSDs are Crucial.
Also liked their heatspreader size, making them Noctua NH-D15 friendly, everything else on the market is king sized these days. And there is NO WAY i'm gonna buy Corsair LPX, had my experience with Corsair already.
The comment was more to do with the fact that you've posted very angry comments on a few of my news posts recently.
Or maybe they've just scored a huge deal to be the OEM for all of HP's HyperX modules, but the contract has a non-compete clause :P
Team has obviously been around quite a while, hardly an up and comer.
OLOy I wouldn't touch with a barge pole.
Lots of odd brands here like Orca, Leven, v-color, anacomda (yes), AGI, Utwin and even Pioneer these days.
Apacer is apparently back in the DRAM business and somehow Geil is still in business. Lexar, the brand Micron sold to some PRC company is also doing RAM now.
Your last point makes sense, as I'm sure it's the kind of thing Micron would do if they could earn more money on it than selling their own sticks of light up RAM.There's your problem, Nanya chips.
I have their 3600MHz modules with Hynix-CJR and they both run at higher clocks and tighter timings, plus I'm using four sticks.
The big problem with all the fancy heatsinked memory modules is that you are buying the pig in the bag, as you often can't tell what DRAM chips you get. When memory makers then have multiple revisions of the same modules, without letting their customers know, you can end up with all kinds of random stuff.
Did you try contacting Patriot? Their support is actually quite good. I bought one of their NVMe SSDs and the thermal pad didn't touch the controller, so it was overheating to the extent it made my system crash, even though it wasn't the OS drive. They swapped it out, no questions asked.
Got several mates that have bought higher-end Viper Steel modules than mine and everyone's happy with their RAM.
Everything over 4000MHz should be Samsung B-dies.