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If there’s no such thing as consumer grade RAM, then what did Micron’s announcement mean? https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micro

• justsomehnguy 8mo ago
  Re-read the previous comment again. You just need an additional chip to move from "consumer grade" (ie no parity) to "server grade" (ie have parity). ECC support is actually in the memory controller which is in the CPU for the last 15 years. No magik.
• cweagans 8mo ago
  The announcement means that they're closing Crucial - just like it says in the title and the first paragraph. The rest of that press release is outlining the mechanics of how that works + some fluff. Micron is going to continue producing the exact same memory chips in the exact same fabs. They're just not soldering it to a board, slapping the Crucial logo on it, and selling it directly to consumers. There's nothing stopping downstream vendors from buying Micron chips, soldering them to a board, and selling them to consumers as Micron was doing previously. There's nothing in that press release that implies that the memory was somehow different (or "consumer-grade"). The _only_ thing they're saying is that they're ending their B2C business and focusing on B2B.
  • cheschire 8mo ago
    Didn’t you just describe the literal difference between consumer grade RAM that is soldered to a consumer format board vs a memory chip sold to a company to be soldered onto a product of the other company?
    • cweagans 8mo ago
      Calling it "consumer-grade RAM" is inaccurate - RAM is RAM. When you solder it to a board, you now have a DIMM that is carrying RAM chips. It's a semantic difference, but it's important.