Micron has announced in a press release dated December 3 2025 that it will stop selling Crucial branded memory and Solid State Drives (SSDs) for consumer desktops and laptops at the end of February 2026.

The reason according to the press release :

“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,” said Sumit Sadana, EVP and Chief Business Officer at Micron Technology. “Thanks to a passionate community of consumers, the Crucial brand has become synonymous with technical leadership, quality and reliability of leading-edge memory and storage products. We would like to thank our millions of customers, hundreds of partners and all of the Micron team members who have supported the Crucial journey for the last 29 years.”

This is unfortunate, given that pricing of memory has surged in 2025 due to the demand of Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers. According to Ars Technica :

“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.”

“At the moment, the structural imbalance between AI demand and consumer supply shows no signs of easing. OpenAI’s Stargate project has reportedly signed agreements for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month, which could account for nearly 40 percent of global production.”

According to CamelCamelCamel, a price tracking website, a pair of Crucial 32GB DDR5 RAM Kit (2x16GB), 5600MHz (or 5200MHz) Desktop Memory on Amazon.com rose
from $73.50 US in April 2025 to $277.98 US on December 3 2025.

Deep Sigh. Lot of memories (no pun intended) using Crucial memory and SSDs over the years.

As Crucial’s history page notes , Crucial began selling memory directly to consumers in 1996 and started selling SSDs in 2008 and its website over time offered a extensive memory selector to guide consumers on whether its memory modules was compatible with your desktop or laptop.

Nearly a month after Amazon Web Services went down, Cloudflare, which offers a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to caching content from web servers so such content can load quickly to users globally and DNS hosting services among other things, also experiences a disruption to its service on November 18 2025. Cloudflare’s disruption resulted in several websites and services such as X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Uber, Canva and not being accessible for a few hours.

The disruption to Cloudflare was not due to an external attack but due to a misconfiguration to a database resulting in a larger file generated which disrupted traffic being delivered on Cloudflare’s network.

Cloudflare has posted a detailed blog post on what went wrong less than 24 hours after the incident.

The hosting of TTCS’s website at https://ttcs.tt is done using Amazon Lightsail which is a Virtual private server, meaning it’s like a virtual machine which you have full control (and therefore maintenance!) of the operating system, web server, database server, runtime environment, the Content Management System and the content to go with the website. 

One of the things to be done was the update of the hosting server as it was based on the previous Ubuntu LTS release which ended support in April 2025, running the AMP stack (Apache web server, MySQL database and PHP ). We used WordPress as the Content Management System and the (now previous) TTCS website was using the Koji Theme 

which shows blog posts in a card based UI which I liked.

This Koji theme was developed in 2017-2018. Since then WordPress itself has undergone changes internally which a switch from the classic editor which was used to create WordPress content and themes to the Gutenberg Block Editor allowing users to build and design websites using modular blocks for text, images and other content.

So the server content was backed up, and a new server was setup to host the TTCS website at https://www.ttcs.tt and the TTCS OSSWIN online site at https://ttcsosswin.ttcs.tt . The server will also be hosting other websites (more on this at a later time)

After content was imported, I took the default WordPress theme Twenty Twenty Five and tried to come up with a card based UI similar to the Koji theme and to learn more about the Gutenberg editor.

The result is what you see at https://ttcs.tt .

The navigation of the sites was also changed with pages dedicated to :

• Meetings (https://www.ttcs.tt/meetings/)
• Projects (https://www.ttcs.tt/projects/) which groups our projects such as the Computer Refurbishment Project and TTCS OSSWIN
• Policy Development (https://www.ttcs.tt/policy-development/) – which highlights the policy inputs and collaborations TTCS has done with local and global organisations such as ICANN, TTMAG and TTBS, among others.
• Donate to TTCS – (https://www.ttcs.tt/donate/) – we need funds for the computer refurbishment project, there are many requests and many computers to be refurbished.
• Archived Projects page : https://www.ttcs.tt/archived-projects/ which lists some past projects the TTCS did.

Also, all of the 912 posts done over the 20+ years were edited to match the new block editor and adding featured images to these posts.

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (https://ttcs.tt) invites you to join our online meeting on May 20 2025 at 8pm (23:59 UTC).

We will be using Zoom for this meeting. Please register in advance at the following link :

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zhx1p6PfSQ-bamQKolNrDA

Come join us as we talk about

• The new Trinidad and Tobago Government (GoRTT) reintroducing the laptop program for secondary schools. The GoRTT is purchasing 18,000 laptops for students entering secondary school in September 2025 with AI features. 
  
• The new Ministry of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence which looks to be a merger of the previous administration’s Ministry of Public Administration and Ministry of Digital Transformation
  
• Updates on the TTCS Computer Refurbishment Project

and more! Registration is FREE ! Questions? Email info@ttcs.tt

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) invites you to join our upcoming online meeting on Thursday, April 24, 2025, at 8:00 PM (23:59 UTC).

We will be using Zoom for this meeting. Please register in advance at the following link :
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/UtHGcFejROqWxHivWEPlaA

Come join us as we talk about

• use of AI in Trinidad and Tobago General Elections
• potential of increased costs of hardware due to US tariffs
• update on computer refurbishment project

and more! (AI updates, Apple M4 updates, Nintendo Switch 2, TTWiFi, local phishing scams via SMS, Whatsapp, Skype shutting down)

Registration is FREE ! Questions? Email info@ttcs.tt