{"id":816,"date":"2025-12-09T14:57:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/?p=816"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:57:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:57:48","slug":"farewell-crucial-the-moment-ai-took-over-our-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Crucial: The Moment AI Took Over Our PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I saw the news that <strong>Micron was killing off the Crucial consumer brand<\/strong>, my first thought was a punch to the gut. Crucial&nbsp;wasn&#8217;t just another company; it was the <strong>reliable backbone<\/strong>&nbsp;for so many of us who build our own PCs\u2014the go-to for affordable, quality SSDs and RAM. It felt like a loyal friend walking away.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The golden era where tech companies chased <em>our<\/em>&nbsp;dollar with ever-faster phones and cheaper SSDs is officially over. The spotlight is now fixed on the data center.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crucial\u2019s quiet exit is the <strong>first bell tolling for consumer-first technology<\/strong>. It makes you wonder: as the industry funnels everything into AI, will our everyday gadgets just become slower, less innovative, and more expensive? It\u2019s a sobering thought.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crucial was the reliable backbone\u00a0for so many of us who build our own PCs\u2014the go-to for affordable, quality SSDs and RAM. It felt like a loyal friend walking away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}