Micron ceases production of its Crucial Ballistix memory

In what is sure to come as an unexpected move to many, Micron has decided to end the production of its popular gaming RAM lineup. A press release from Micron announced the abrupt end of Crucial Ballistix memory. The press release states that Micron will “end-of-life” its Crucial Ballistix gaming memory, but it didn’t give a reason as to why. The decision is rather puzzling since Crucial Ballistix memory is fairly popular among gamers. While it’s unknown why Micron decided to end the production of Crucial Ballistix memory, the company did say that it plans to “intensify its focus on the development” of its DDR5 product roadmap. Whether this means it’ll have enthusiast-level gaming DDR5 RAM in the near future isn’t clear. Micron does sell standard DDR5 memory without the enthusiast specs typical of the Ballistix lineup. For example, there’s no RGB on these sticks of RAM, which, as we all know, is unforgivable in the PC gaming space…