In a recent interview with PC World’s The Full Nerd Network, Kingston Datacenter SSD Business Manager Cameron Crandall (interviewed by PC World’s Mark Hachman) stated that Kingston has no intention of abandoning PC enthusiasts, as consumers are the “foundation” of the company. Despite the industry’s massive pivot toward lucrative AI infrastructure, Crandall reassured viewers that Kingston’s identity is deeply rooted in the gaming and enthusiast sectors, specifically through their FURY and Canvas product lines.
The “AI Squeeze”
Crandall provided a sobering look at the current DRAM and NAND landscape. The primary driver of the current shortage is the “HBM squeeze,” where the world’s three major memory fabricators (Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron) have shifted nearly all high-end wafer production to High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) to satisfy the explosive demand for AI GPUs.
This shift has left the consumer market fighting for “leftover” silicon. The effects have been staggering:
- Price Hikes: NAND wafer prices have surged by 246% since the start of 2025, with a massive 70% of that increase occurring in just the last 60 days.
- Reduced Choice: With major players like Micron recently exiting the consumer retail market (Crucial), Kingston is now one of the few remaining giants dedicated to maintaining retail shelf presence.
Advice for Consumers: “Buy Now”
When asked how builders and gamers should navigate this “pricing apocalypse,” Crandall’s advice was direct: Do not wait. He warned that the typical consumer strategy of “waiting for the next sale” may backfire in the current climate. “My advice today would be to not hold off on that purchase because it will be more expensive 30 days from now,” Crandall noted, suggesting that we are in a historic upswing with no immediate peak in sight. He expects these supply constraints and elevated prices to persist well into 2026.
The long-term impact of this shortage could lead to a hollowed-out PC market where high-performance DDR5 and high-capacity SSDs become luxury items. While Kingston is leveraging its massive supply chain to “smooth the curve” for its customers, the reality is that the era of “ultra-cheap” storage is over for the foreseeable future as every bit of memory is now a commodity in the global AI arms race.
FULL STORY: Kingston Datacenter Head States They Will Not Abandon Consumers and Enthusiasts: https://b2g.to/wc2a7
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Good Guy Kingston.
We love kingston around here
‘Consumers are the foundation of the company’ with that in mind, if their customer service and product quality improves , after this memory shortage phase, they could capture a large share of the market .
Corsair memory was never cheap even before this AI boom nor will .
now they have a strong opportunity to dominate the memory market in the near future . hope, they make the most of it.
Hope kingston dont abandon the consumer market.
No wonder there’s ‘King’ in Kingston
well thats good, ive always liked kingston but they dont make their own ram chips or nand samsund, SK hynicx and Micron (who asre exiting the market ) do . micron hasnt explicitly stated its not going to sell to people like kingston who use their chips, just its house brand. but i just was looking at SSD prices then and theyve doubled too
dont worry kingston, We will remember you. When the time comes, for sure consumers will pay you the favor
all hail Kingston Technology
but aren’t they also affected with the ram shortage? (not trying to attack Kingston since I use their ssd, but I can’t find a proper price history page that covers Kingston RAMs, so that’s why I’m asking)
Iosef D***l V***e they are and they’re prices are still rising as well, but what the Kingston Datacenter boss is saying is that they can’t afford to lose good will from consumers as that’s their core market.
Back2Gaming yeah, I get the post… I just don’t know whether their ram prices is going up or not, been looking for that answer for the past few weeks now
ah yes, i can only speak for my region which they are definitely climbing, also regions with amazon or newegg have pricing history but best is to really check with your local ones.
if they won’t raise prices, the vendors/resellers would be the ones hiking them up
what they need to do is produce a lot more to meet demand
Iosef D***l V***e not mentioned about prices but they’ll stay and manufacture rams for consumers like us. not focusing mainly on tech giants for AI use
Iosef D***l V***e they are, but it just stated they taking different direction from crucial who abandoned consumer grade
Iosef D***l V***e purchased early 2024 in Canadian Pesos, that’s like $40 US$ j/k
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Unfortunately, Kingston is not a chipmaker
Gary C***n they have but can be not idk
Neil C*******n M C*****g Good tp know that.
Gary C***n and their hardware stocks are depleting
Majd M*****d My SSDs are failing one by one . Really hope the AI bubble pops earlier so that hardware are cheaper once again.
Gary C***n Is AI really a bubble, I wonder it’s been going on for last 3 years and still see no end. Did the last generation think same about .com being a bubble but it just made way past leaps and bounds?
Gary C***n – like for real! I was like wait a minute did Kingston start making chips recently, no. In reality, Kingston is just talking out of the side of their mouth.
Gary C***n yeah they aren’t. Hynix, Samsung, and well… Micron (who left) so yeah. It’s going to be tight.
Nuova C****s SK Hynix , Samsung and Crucial all use Micron chips , Others probbly do as well but yes they left the consumer market.
Cut cost where you can but availability is whats important, thank you Kingston for staying in the game!
grok is probably powered by kingston bro
W for Kingston but unfortunately they dont manufacture chips
Nad P****s there still sk hynix so if they go to then goods l for micron and l for samsung
Buddy all 3 chip manufacturers are booked for the next 6mos.
I love kingstonw, but when I was building my late2024/2025 pc. Tcrate was on sale.
we won’t abandon you, but we will milk your pockets
GD R***l I mean in this ai shit you can do anything cus greedy corp will lost in this long run
GD R***l i dont think they made dram chips
Been using Kingston for 15 years now, glad I’ve been supporting the right brand.
Geoffrey D***a they are just kinda chill. They just made good products and that’s enough for them.
Cody Z******i Their products aren’t good they are mid at most
Karl B***u nothing wrong with being mid. I think we as a people have lost the value of being average or mid. most things in the world are just mid… not a bad thing at all.
Cody Z******i It is tho at that point get a hard drive lol no point of having a bad ssd
Rocking 32GB DDR5 CL30 Ram.
Kinston is a lot popular here
do they also have no plans on price increase? :)
Neil S****n V*****s prices depends on raw materials and chip makers. prices are inevitable BUT their idea is to keep making rams for consumer like us NOT making rams focused solely to tech giants for AI use
Neil S****n V*****s this is basic economics tho. low supply and high demand means price increases.
Absolute KINGSton
It won’t bring prices down, but at least it isn’t Crucial saying boo hoo, we are sorry but we won’t sell to consumers anymore.
James K****r Crucial is owned by Micron who makes all the ram modules that Gskill, Corsair, and even Kingston use on their dimms. So in a nutshell you’re buying Crucial memory when you buy Kingston or any other set of RAM dimms.
After AI gold rush and it all died down, They’ll have an oversupply in RAM and it’ll probably lower the RAM prices.
Nes C***b there won’t be an oversupply. HBM can’t be used on consumer PCs, it’s different than DDR
Nes C***b the problem is ram server is not compatible with your usual motherboard….. And price for GPU/cpu for server is TOO HIGH
Budi S****o they are literally buying up ddr5 ecc. Every amd chipset since am3 has supported ecc. Some small fraction of the buying up right now is Hbm.
Kardo K***l they buy 40% ddr5 ram in 2026, not all RAM
Most likely this ia cartel playing price
Kardo K***l this isn’t true at all. The 128gb and 256gb ecc sever dimms don’t work in anything but high end severs. And ecc memory support on amd isn’t enabled on consumer chips. My 9950x and 7950x both don’t work with the many ecc dimms I have laying around.
Kardo K***l amd motherboards dont support ecc memory. amd cpus do. eg my 9950x has “support” but that depends on the motherboard. and no motherboards have support on the current market that i know of.
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Nes C***b good luck waiting for that. cause it won’t happen anytime soon.
Nes C***b goodluck waiting that, atleast until the $500 billion AI megaproject is complete
Saif M******l H***a far more. Nvidia has nearly 4.5 trillion us dollars in Ai hardware in data centres as of mid 2025. Amd has just 250 billion. 500b is nothing. The us government spent that on just gemini for military use
Nes C***b Doubt it will ever return to normal. Once they figure that people buy it anyway, they’ll never lower the prices. People should simply BOYCUT this BS, until they get their head out of their asses
Not abandon consumer but price will be sky rocket
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If somebody helps-helps just Kingstone
Let’s all buy from Kingston
I mean… They don’t make chips… What TF else would they do?
Darren J***s they do make chips but not for us not for the gamers but for businesses to train and develop A.I
Phước T***n Kingston don’t manufacture chips buddy.
Darren J***s yeah but the Ram or Ssd, the price of those have just sky-rocketed lately
Phước T***n they still don’t make the chips for em bud
Phước T***n the folks that actually make the chips are SK Hynix, Samsung Semiconductor, and Micron (who just recently left consumers by axing Crucial). That’s what Darren is talking about.
Nuova C****s Yes but the ICs will still be made, these just won’t sell the final product assembly anymore
Phước T***n
Nope!
Darren J***s sd cards
James A* L*****e TF has that got to do with ram bud?
My RAM Kit is Kingston Fury 2×8 DDR4
But I got accused as a Furry
Kcirej Omat
Meanwhile kingston raises each week 10-15%.
Looks like my transition to ddr5 is canceled. Now time to find a 5600x3d or 5700x3d
#WeAreKingston
Of course they don’t. With Crucial gone they have a bigger slice of the consumer market to exploit with higher prices
“Crandall warns this is a pricing apocalypse unlike anything he’s seen in 29 years”
I guess he slept through the crypto booms affect on GPU prices then?
Nah, it’s just going to be worse than that.
UPLift Accessories in like 10 years yea ?
Othman B****e I’ll give it 5 before investors realize the few trillions they dumped into AI tech, aren’t going to give the returns they expected before they need to dump another few trillion, just for the tech to keep up.
Kingston is a real one
When ram skyrocketed my buddy cried to me about prices, he showed me some Corsair stuff for like 1.2k (64gb). I said your issue is Corsair, went online and found your guys stuff with better performance for half the cost. Love you guys.
Kai A******n lol, it ain’t half the cost anymore. It’s the same/similar fk’ing price as Corsair shit now.
I love them too but holy hell they are all greedy as fk.
Joshua H* V* not really greedy. They sell for $200 and the next batch costs them $1200. It’s how inflation gets you.
Frinboi F*****l not really, it is purely greed. The rise in AI caused a large demand of NAND. Hence why all the NAND producers are directing a lot of their shit to AI because it’s more profitable. Which leaves less for regular consumers to purchase. So supplies drop and demand stays the same as before. Meaning a shortage. Meaning higher prices.
It all begins with the corporate classic of chasing the profits. So. It all comes down to Greed.
Joshua H* V* It is greed but NAND itself has gone up a shit ton as well as DRAM, these are major components.
Syed S*****b A***r indeed.
Kai A******n wut lol even kingston value ram is expensive
Heuh, looked it up and it checks out. Didn’t believe it at first.
Kai A******n I just brought a set of 64GB of ddr5 for almost normal price form Kingston, really coming in clutch
Bersama Kingston membangun PC
Whose chip kingston will be using …. By what I remember kingston is RAM stick producer…It doesn’t make RAM chips…that black IC on RAM sticks
No, of course not, why would they exit a market that just got shocked by the exit of Crucial? Fewer suppliers mean the ones left standing get to reap the spoils and, more importantly, dictate the price. When you’re the only store in town SOMEONE will buy fron you.
Now if they also promised to do whatever they could to keep product accessible that’s another story but everyone knows they can’t keep that promise if they made it.
OEM brand ♥️
Shaun Darch
Kingston just buys hynix ram and puts a heatsink on it btw. Like basically every other ram company out there.
Samsung, hynix and micron call the shots. Its a complete monopoly.
No but will ramp price up !!!
That’s why I love this brand even though it’s a bit expensive hahaha
the most confusing for me was like ” who demands and who was starving for AI??” is it just me? where are the people demanding for AI? or is it just like the modern audience thing
Usually with ai you can play games with ai interaction not. Save conversation but ai communication also
I knew Kingston was one of the good ones. Don’t they make decent SSDs as well?
John R*****d yeah, I’ve had some ups and downs but steadily good quality from them
John R*****d Good and cheap ssds. Back in 2017- 2020 it was one of the few brands you could get a 256gb sata ssd for $20.00
John R*****d They don’t
Karl B***u if you buy entry level hardware that’s what you get. Their high end stuff is rock solid. Even their low end stuff can last I put an A400 SSD in a family friends PC in 2015-16 it’s still running.
とも と* Thats dogshit tho lol having an SSD as slow as a hard drive is idiotic
Karl B***u you wa you new to this? That a400 could do a burst of 480mbps a hdd tops out at 100 max. It’s not even about big files as well even the cheap SSDs could move tonnes of tiny files about faaaar quicker than a hard drive could with its poor arms. No need for defrag too quick random access was still much faster because it don’t have to move shit whilst you’re doing shit.
とも と* G70 is much better ♂️
didn’t know we were dick measuring pc parts wtf
Karl B***u lmao bud haven’t tried the KC3000 nvme. You projecting
John R*****d the only kingston ssd i have ever owned, failed because they issued a firmware update, and never informed people of it… it bricked itself, and was completely unrecoverable.
After that, i swore off the brand, because their customer service told me that the failure was not covered under warranty, and that my 300 dollar drive, and all the data lost on it, was my fault.
Jeff O****k wait so the ssd update itself? Didn’t know that
Wasn’t that a microsoft issue? I think I read it somewhere.
Jeff O****k it is your fault if you lost data though
Gabong J***n E***l while there were purported issues related to SSDs, failing with a Windows 11 update, there have also been several cases where SSD firmware would cause drives to fail after a time or after an internal operation would fail. As an example of firmware related failures on storage, HPE had an issue on hard drives where they would cease to operate after 32,768 operating hours, unless they were on a mitigation firmware. Some of the earlier Samsung Evo and Pro SSDs also had issues pertaining to firmware and Sandforce NAND controllers.
John R*****d Kingston makes good stuff and always has imo. I have a 64gb 3200 ddr4 kit in my old system that runs great! Get all 3200 out of the 4 sticks too!
John R*****d the only vendor I’ve been using since touching PC parts. Their SSDs and RAMs, never died on me
John R*****d Kingston have no other choice they don’t make their own nand & dram they source out to SK-Hynix and Micron
John R*****d yep
John R*****d if it involves memory they make it
John R*****d yup
John R*****d their DC SSDs are the bane of my existence. We had a near 100% failure rate of DC500’s. We ended up switching to Samsung PM8xx’s instead because of how unreliable the Kingston drives are.
John R*****d They are not great in SSD’s though.
John R*****d KC3000’s are great.
John R*****d yes! I’m using a 2TB ssd from them. No complaints!
John R*****d We used 480 and 240 GB SSDs from them in our refurbs, we didn’t have a single return. We used WD Blues for maybe 1/4 the amount of machines and had three of them fail. I’d love to stand by Crucial, they make GREAT products, but they’re abandoning a good chunk of the consumer side, it seems. I can’t and won’t defend a position like that.
John R*****d yeah, their SSD are often cheap on the market. They also made good usb drive.
John R*****d I’ve been using a Kingston NVMe for 6 years, and no issues.
John R*****d I def use fury all the time if I buy it myself. Love kingstons memory. Never tried their ssd but will now if I can get 8tb ones
John R*****d they make decent everything
John R*****d I use a Kingston SSD for dual booting on my laptop. No complaints. Runs fast enough, good capacity, and has worked well for the few years I’ve been using it. Plus they’re not hella expensive.
John R*****d some of the best, actually. As long as I’ve been building PCs, Kingston and Western Digital were always the go-to for storage.
John R*****d yes they do I had purchased and upgraded many if their 240, 480, and 960 MB in the last few years. Haven’t reported a failure yet
John R*****d yes and usually cheaper
John R*****d right. At first I thought that they will walk away from gaming after selling Hyper X to HP, but they came back and name the gaming division as Fury. I’m glad they did not abandoned the gamers.
John R*****d they’re not the fastest, but they’ve tended to be reliable and generally in the mid-range for pricing
John R*****d no they have malfunction ssds and m.2s
I hate their SSD, RAM’s good though
John R*****d decent is about right. Not to bad. Not that great, good cost alternatives
John R*****d yes!
John R*****d meh. Same level as the suspicious brands on Amazon. They are well known for deception on their SSDs and flash drives because they would give reviewers and the first 2-3 months of supply of new product to consumers and then rug pull everyone else with a worse product. You can’t even tell the difference because they don’t change any model numbers despite the chips being different inside that doesn’t deliver the speeds they advertise.
John R*****d Most Kingston RAM and SSD i had was built like a tank
John R*****d yes. The only problems is that they put the warranty sticker on top of the chips. Wich makes it difficult to install a heatsink on it
But the consumers will abandon it if prices don’t get better… And that concerns all RAM and SSD manufacturers.
I love you
The real issue is that the whole concept of AI data centres smells like the Internet explosion in the late 1990’s, there were thousands of web startups that flush with venture capital money, run by twenty somethings that had an appetite for Sun computers, drugs, expensive rented real estate and expensive cars. By the late 2000s the venture capitalists wanted some return on their investment, and 995 out of a thousand of those companies declared bankruptcy. Sun who had been making a crap ton of money earlier in the decade, was looking at it’s hardware on the used market, for pennies on the dollar. Oracle bought what was left for MySQL and Java.
Once people see AI for what it really is, ARTIFICIAL intelligence, it’s all going to fall apart, and I wouldn’t want to be NVidea or Micron when it does.
Only to increase prices.
Thanks, Sean.
W kingston
They’ve been around for a LONG time…
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Because they know everyone is going to be coming to them.
Kingston seeing the gap in the market hopefully
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Thanks for being loyal to us Kingston as long as you been numero uno in my built i got Fury Kingston sticks of ram and an Nvme ssd
Please support! Kingston ✨
From the beginning they should have done different bills no matter what…
Company pay 2x
Consumer pay the normal.
The same way they sell fake premium to us they can also get fucked.
All my SSDs are Kingston. Some of them been running non stop for 8 years!
Thank you <3
They’re missing out, their loss
When prices come back down Kingston will be the only brand I use from now on
w
The type and brand of DRAM chips will be the question
but scalpers will fuck us all up
Worth to support Kingston untill now
And just like that, all of crucials business went to Kingston
Good guy Kingston
I knew I liked Kingston! Bet I’ll be spending more their way!
They need ram for AI. Basically it holds the billion of parameters to use in execution of program. And they prefer vram than ram. The problem is this giants companies needs a thousand of specialize gpu with large vram. So they ask ram manufactures that instead of using the chipsets for pc users, they badly needed it to AI System. Think of it that there is shortage or limited of steel in a market because chinese government ask steel makers to produce steels needed to long bridge and its a priority.
This post was written by AI
“Somebody call 9-1-1!” oooops. Wrong Kingston.
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Just start banning AI, issues closed!
Kingston W
we WILL remember
Kingston is dogshit
Thank you Kingston for caring for the REAL customers. IK the ai market is messing you up but keep fighting.
So what I’m hearing is that if/when micron tries to return to consumers after the ai bubble deflates/bursts, we don’t buy their stuff and continue to deal with Kingston and others.
Except when they don’t honor their lifetime warranty.
KINGston
With the other pulling out, this is a change for them to increase production and take a much larger market share. I’m sure they’re more than happy to shoulder the load
John Carl Enoc
W Kingtson
Thank you for fighting the good fight. Always like your brand.
I have an SSD sata 480 with 55000 hours and 8 years with 30% according to cristal disk info from kingston
32GB ram now is more expensive than RTX 5050
i’ve been using Kingston ram since the DDR2 era…some people said its unreliable but it works just fine for me on all my build with no issues
Sylvester E***c I used Mainly OCZ for ddr2 days and miss them…..
I use G.Skill for ddr3. That being said DDR2 was pretty bulletproof even if it was cheap low quality ram because of their speeds they ran at were low enough.
Gonna be big move for them to potentially be the main choice moving forward
yes, but with higher price too
That’s why this is their logo
May 1st pc until now i use kingston.
Bruh, bought this kit cl30 for 135€, how it’s only 240% increse
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Thats insane. I built my rig about two years ago and 64gb of 6000mhz ram was maybe $400? Just looked at the same brand and the price has over doubled. PC gaming is slowly falling to consoles for this reason, no one can afford it anymore. First PC I ever built slayed everything for $1000
now the opportunity for China to take this market, come on China give you most cheapest ram easy customer will queue to buyy
Kudos to them but Kingston only makes modules. They don’t make the chips themselves.
We will remember them as the good ones.
Common W Kingsont
I always buy Kingston Ram I love Kingston stuff and I will continue to now
Lol You mean the same company that use to be top-tier RAM manufacturers end are now probably one of the worst? Then they tried to get into SSDs and the company I worked for installed over 100 Patriot Torch SSDs only to have them fail in a few months, some within weeks? Of course they won’t abandon consumers… nobody else is dumb enough to buy their trash LOL!
They should make consumer RAMs that make it incompatible/bottleneck for AI like how they made LHRs for GPUs
Ildrich A****n the ai data centers don’t use consumer ram anyway.
Emily D***s Josh B***l then why is consumer ram still expensive then?!
Ildrich A****n so they use the same production plants. kingston buys memory from Samsung and SK Hynix.Samsung and SK Hynix have cut the production of consumer memory so they can use the extra production space for enterprise ram.
they can not make both at the same time. they dont have enough production. so they inflate the prices to correct for the fact they have a massive production shortage.
Emily D***s Samsung , SK Hynix and Crucial all buy their chips from Micron. Im sure others use Micron chips too.
Randel G*****n this is incorrect, Samsung, sk hynix, micron all completely different fabs, those are supplier’s, crucial is just micron in a mustache for consumers, which they killed that brand.
Ildrich A****n this is already the case. Data centres have never used consumer ram. They almost exclusively use 128gb and 256gb enterprise server ECC dimms. These are only functional in a server. As intel/amd have no consumer support for error correction dimms.
Emily D***s Depends on the server , Ive had servers in the past that could use consumer ram at a lower capacity or ECC at a much higher capacity. But any sane smart person will want to use ECC.
Emily D***s amd cpus natively support ecc even on consumer boards
Tyler H***s CPU support yes. motherboard support NO. infact currently no consumer board supports ECC memory. and no consumer board supports 128/256gb dimms anyway. so you can not run server memory. even if both your cpu/gpu support ECC.
i run a 9950x. i have a 7950x. NO ecc supported motherboard exists for both. no ecc ddr5 memory exists that would work even if a motherboard exists.
Emily D***s the motherboards exist…. Ddr5 ecc support is still growing, im on am4 myself and run ecc on my asrock board. But all the chipsecc or non ecc are all the same, ecc is added later so it doesn’t matter if ai does or doesn’t use ecc because the physical product components are the same. But it’s wild claiming no motherboards support it. Infact ddr5 has built in ecc on a much much lower level than standard ecc
Tyler H***s ddr5 doesn’t have error correction support on remotely the same level. there EC4 (72-bit). ec4 is as good or equal to no ECC support. they simply have the extra bits enabled for use. nothing uses them. its dead space.
the global standard for ddr5 is EC8 (80-bit) registered.
Tyler H***s “via a bios mod level 1 tech enabled ecc support on the ASRock X670E Steel Legend. but asrock confirmed no current nor future boards would have offical ecc support.”
congrats you got lucky it would seem with a bios hacked board or some other mess.
asrock does not support ecc. at all.
Emily D***s this is again incorrect there absolutely is ecc on am5, asrock has boards NATIVELY so does asus, it’s okay to just say you didn’t know… But you’re spreading false information that’s easy to find false.
Emily D***s https://www.asrock.com/mb/compare.asp?Models=X670E%20Pro%20RS,X670E%20Steel%20Legend,X670E%20PG%20Lightning
Ildrich A****n they never use normal ram as we use , ECC is different but they want to focus on making ram for AI datacenter because price and large contact than casual user
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TBF 20+ years doing Enterprise IT and not once do I recall seeing Kingston RAM in one of my servers or something lol. So its less like “we are not leaving the customer” and more “we never really had a foothold on enterprise, this is a great PR stunt”
I really wish they would. I have a bin full of dead Kingston ssds.
Kingston’s bread and butter has always been memory for everybody. It’s never a good look for them to abandon any of their markets so it tracks that they would stay. Everyone else, I find, has dabbled in too many things. :/
These AI datacenters are gonna look really pretty sitting there when the average consumer doesn’t have a viable PC or handheld to access their functions anyway ♂️
Paul C****o wouldn’t the computers running ai use server ram so why are they talking about pc ram shortages
Server ram is just desktop ram with extra steps.
Michael F***n because the manufactures stopped manufacturing consumer ram and switched focus to server.. creating a shortage for basic consumers and prices are tripled in the last month alone
Haven’t minded Kingston since the 90’s and this bumps them up a peg.
Cool but in my contry the kingston snv3s 2tb cost more than the samsung 990 evo plus 2tb..
They should limit how much Ram one company can buy at one time, do the same with consumers. Any company that cares about their community wouldn’t allow all AI companies to buy all their supplies.
gotta ramp up production!
They already did when they stopped making dual channel ram
Shawn M E****e I* all ram is dual/quad channel. That’s not upto the ram maker. That’s upto the cpu/motherboard.
Emily D***s not true at all kingston fury chipset models from 2021and earlier are dual channel on the same cpu and motherboard setups but usimg anything newer is single channel my gskill however is dual channel there is a difference and it has been a huge thing since the late 90s.
Shawn M E****e I* I literally have a 192gb fury set running at dual channel with my 9950x and quad channel with my threadripper right now.
It’s a CPU/mobo feature. It’s why if you look at your mobo specifications it will list single/dual rank/channel memory support. Many cheaper mobos no longer support dual Channel. It’s rare laptops have support since they don’t have the dimm slots to need too.
Shawn M E****e I* my older 10900k build from 2023 also has furys at dual channel so it definitely works if the mobo/CPU has support
Emily D***s thats fine your still wrong in assumption
Shawn M E****e I* I’m not. Dual/quad channel is supported. https://www.kingston.com/dataSheets/KF432C16BBK2_16.pdf I use it every day.
Regardless a memory manufacturer can not disable dual/quad channel. That’s not a thing. Maybe you have two different types of dimms and that would but that’s entirely your fault. Dual and quad channel require matched memory. This is why memory is sold as packs of 2 (dual Channel ready) or 4 (quad Channel ready.) Kingston quite literally marks all there memory as dual/quad channel ready in all documentation for supported hardware
Shawn M E****e I* I’ve held a masters in hardware engineering since 2013 just FYI so this is my profession.
Shawn M E****e I* regardless. 9950x is running correctly in dual channel with 192gb of kingston ram. because dual channel/quad channel is a feature controlled by the cpu/mobo maker not the memory.
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Emily D***s you’re so close to understanding but refuse to accept you could be only partially correct. I never argued whether it was a feature however you are still incorrect memory itself can also be made with single channel chipsets while still running a bypass through the cpu to do dual channel applications but its not the same as memory that has two separate chipset channels. Again this has been done since the late 90s. Look further into this if you still dont understand what im saying.
Shawn M E****e I* let me break this down further then
memory CHANNELS. are a CHIPSET feature. the CHIPSET. is on the MOTHERBOARD. https://www.geekompc.com/dual-channel-vs-single-channel/
this means all memory by default must support dual/quad channel. because this is a motherboard/cpu controlled feature.
memory CHANNELS. are how many MOTHERBOARD CHIPSET lanes run to the ram. you can have 16 memory slots and run them all through a single channel. but its going to run at 1/16 speed
memory can not be made to be single channel becuase the motherboard/cpu are what decides how many channels are directed to memory.
RAM CAN decide if it is single,dual or quad rank. single rank memory is much faster. and performs better in multichannel configs. https://www.oempcworld.com/support/singlevsdualram.html
Many people don’t know that CPU’s these days have the memory controllers embedded into them rather than the older (North bridge / South bridge systems) …
The duck that fellow holds the module, touching its connector side…..
The worst ssd’s , but sure keep making them . I have a A400 and it lost half of the write speed in a year of light use , as sistem drive …. and i am lucky many say they fail even faster . And with ssd’s beeing so expensive just get a better one guys that will last longer and have a dram cache .
For things like data centers, mobos/ram makers should have just made a type that is proprietary from consumers. Ie a different pin out for the rams. Maybe call it DDR5DC.
Rob C****r I***I they do micron killed crucial because they make their own ram chips. Kingston just assembled other people’s.
Rob R****s ???? Crucial , SK Hynix and Samsung all get their chips from Micron.
Rob C****r I***I this is already the case. Data centres have never used consumer ram. They almost exclusively use 128gb and 256gb enterprise server ECC dimms. These are only functional in a server. As intel/amd have no consumer support for error correction dimms.
Emily D***s Not all servers are exclusively ECC only but you do get high capacities with ECC ram and more reliable because of error correction on ECC.
Kingston Jamaica ?
still rocking my good old ddr4 on my ryzen 5950x loving it still
Sean Remegio
The “AI squeeze” is like “grocery inflation”… A few greedy people strangling the very people they want to have children and buy their products but giving them no means to do so.
As far as the eye can see… Bubbles everywhere
How did RAM become so expensive
Not yet
Sadly Kingston doesnt make the ICs, just the finished board.
good guy Kingston !!
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Doesn’t matter coz prices keep going up due to rule of supply and demand. No point really, even old stocks are sold in new rates because of greed.
Too bad they have a low market share
Yes i know where my money is going to just like xfx and gigabyte kingstone will be my staple
Yes, but will prices reflect this, or will it be based on supply and demand?
Buddy of mine is working in Kingston…..Oh Yes, they will be cutting down on shipments as early as Q1 2026…..
Yet all kigngston RAM and kingston SSD have their prices through the roof
Make note of this
When ai bubble bursts, people will remember who dumped them for short term profits
Not gonna abandon them. Just gonna price gouge the fuck out of them.
Now we know were to go
I wonder why?? Hmmm
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Lenny M***s it’s so they can easily get you data.
People are on marketplace jacking up prices on ddr2 and ddr 3 ram. I’m like who gonna buy that cause new computers use ddr5
Until suddenly a new CEO comes along and changes everything
Prices skyrocketing was not on my bingo card for the year.
The KING!
Increased market share along with being peoples brand opportunity. Good move.
Ai needs to die. Don’t use it. Its not accurate. Support wiki with true info.
The new go to for sure!
Damn it Kingston, now I feel compelled to buy something from you!
I doubt that ai sustainable at this point
Lets go kingston
I applaud Kingston’s efforts to remain in the consumer PC sector, however since they do not manufacture the chips, they may be subject to the price increases as well, and may have to pass that along to the consumer in a form of a higher price
good opportunity for kingston, the more reasonably priced ram and ssd’s they put on the market the more they’ll make.
I like Kingston, but this is empty posturing. They don’t make the actual RAM chips, they use the same Micron, Samsung or SK Hynix chips that everyone else does. They literally don’t have the option to exit the consumer market to chase the ‘big AI bucks’, because it’s literally the only market they have.
Another reason to stick with Kingston.
Based move
That is sick. I have Kingston SSD’s and all my computers. I know who I’m sticking with.
Hmm think I should go buy one of there drives now I need one anyway.
I have a question, if AI companies are memories starving for training the modals for us, but on other side we can’t buy the devices to use them cuz the shortage that they have made. What are they serving exactly now ????
While this is great, they don’t manufacture DRAM chips, so they are going to be constrained as well.
yay kington
This AI bubble needs to pop and crash harder than the twin towers. The greed reeks so foul.
The idea is to always be able to out compute the person you are survelling
Yet.
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Which is fine, but it does nothing for the prices. Micron MADE the chips, and they shut down consumer production. All we have left now are basically Samsung and SK Hynix, and they both say they aren’t increasing production.
So basically, this quote means nothing.
Let’s go Kingston im buying more of your products
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Thanks Kingston you who I was started out with even though one of the parishes in my country Jamaica name Kingston and I will never stop buying your products you and silicon power and gigastone cares about us gamers Thanks again
When demand and supply bites you so hard
Great opportunity for them NGL
WE LOVE KINGSTON RAAAAHHHH
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KINGSTON IS GOATEDDDD
good guy Kingston
Because they dont have the money to lmao
AI is a big consumer, so this is just words.
Kingston is still king
Phillip Hedger
Now the 2tb ssd nvme of kingston is worth $245 dollars now here in the ph
Abdullah Bin Arshad
I thought kingston main market share is in the Consumer market and not Enterprise soooo make sense.
Yeah, but your still doubling the price for it!
Kingston is not like Crucial/Micron
Kingston does not make its own memory chips like Micron. They don’t have the opportunity that Micron has. What a dumb announcement lol
Remember this companies loyalty when the AI bubble pops and parasites like nividia and most RAM manufacturers come crawling back begging for gamer-cash again.
Can’t spell King without Kingston
Yea I doubt it
The only brand i use for ram anyway.
There are NO actual demand for AI, just corpos that wanna push their stocks up -_-
Michael Trifa !!
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Kingston are the GOAT
Thats what crucial when they wanted our tax dollars. They took the money and ran
AI boom of the 20’s
Great stance but… it’s Kingston
Fuck yer KINGSton
Kingston is king!
Kingston has always been good, they make reliable, cheap and lasting storage!
Thank god
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Wait for the AI bust. It’s going to happen faster than the .com bust.
buy Kingston fuck others.
Kingston been around for years. My first kit was the 72 simms for a Pentium 75MHz I had which worked great. The only issue I had was one kit for DDR2 for a Pentium 4 system. One stick failed and all I had to do was sent the kit back to them and got a replacement kit which worked fine until the system was retired. It was a no hassle. Then I built a new system with AM5 9950x3d. I didn’t realise the RAM prices was going to shoot up like a rocket. I was forced to buy the last $159 32GB DDR5 6000 Beast Fury kit from Kingston at Wal-mart. Originally planned for a 64GB kit for the same price which I should have bought in the summer. The very next day the price was set at $259. I was shocked to see them going $400 plus and climbing up online. I almost lucked out on finishing this new pc.
Good, I’ve had great luck with them surprisingly.
Kingston is the best brand for RAM period.
Ai bubble will burst and all those manufacturers will come crawling back to ordinary consumers same as before ddr4 shortage,hdd shortage,crypto currency boom don’t buy if you don’t need it wait for prices to fall
common kingston w
Honestly whichever company decides to not hike their prices up and only sell to regular consumers will see a huge increase in profits… Maybe it will be Kingston.
Mateo Rodriguez Villanueva
Once we get over this, we’ll be up to our ears in cheap RAM.
Kingston themselves are buying the chips, they don’t make them.
if it aint samsung, sk hynix, or micron, then any comments from any brands outside of those big 3 are irrelevant. those 3 brands are the only memory chips maker in this world. only those 3 brands that have impact on this memory market right now
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Kingston is a packaging manufacturer only, not a chipmaker like Micron. Crucial was just a packaging division under Micron, so they could afford to shut it down. If Kingston shuts down their business it’s gameover for them.
Kingston=quality
So see you on PS5. Wait it out.
I have 64gb of Kingston fury beast ddr5 in my rig, thankfully bought them last January when we had good prices for memory
Say it with me now, F*ck AI.
At least Kingston doesn’t sell out like that
Respect
I mean, the bubble is a big win for manufacturers in both markets. HBM is at least twice the price of standard pieces and the shortage in standard will also increase its price. They are the big winners of the AI boom.
True ✋↕️
It is time for kingston to flourish!
love u Kingston
… yet. Good on Kingston, but eventually they will probably drop their consumer brand.
Unfortunately the price of Kingston DDR-5 RAM will probably go up and I wouldn’t blame them if they did.
Kingston gave us reggae first, then affordable RAM
John H***l don’t. They are known for bait and switches with their SSDs and flash drives. They give the reviewers what they advertise and then a few months after release they swap the chips and it isn’t fast or reliable anymore. They don’t even change the labeling or model numbers when they do this
King for a reason
Absolutely goated
Tbh this was gigachad move, i will give my full respect and salute o7
Why would they abandon consumers when consumers are stupid enough to pay $2k for RAM that was $200 last month?
Of course they’re not going to abandon consumers, they’re going to get that money anyway they can.
People are stupid, seriously, there’s so many sheep in this world, the wolves will be fed for.thousands of years.
So why are their prices also soaring?
See? It’s all a hoax made by greedy digital “””artists”” fearmongering AI so it doesn’t replace them
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Luke En-gayas
No plans to abandon us with plenty of stocks at a very high price..their crappy kits already sell out for a liver or kidney..
After the AI gold rush is over people will remember which companies decided not to abandon consumers.
kingston is savior… is GOTY hardware in 2026.
Damn big W company
Crucial has been my favourite. Time to switch sides. #Kingston
Private for a reason
This AI sht makes human dumber and dumber. Until no one can do it manually
i own 2 A400 Kingston SSD 240GB & 512GB if i ever want more storage i know which brand im going.
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