- At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) unveiled significant expansions across its Crucial consumer memory and storage portfolio
- The company unveiled the high-speed Crucial P510 SSD, featuring read and write speeds of up to 11,000/9,550 megabytes per second (MB/s), brings blazing fast Gen5 performance to a wider audience
- Micron shares surged in early trading Tuesday after Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang revealed that Micron is supplying memory chips for Nvidia’s new graphics processing units
- Micron Technology stock (NASDAQ:MU) opened trading at US$103.07
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) unveiled significant expansions across its Crucial consumer memory and storage portfolio.
The company unveiled the high-speed Crucial P510 SSD and introduced new density and form factor options for its existing dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) portfolio, aiming to provide consumers with greater choice and flexibility.
The Crucial P510 SSD, featuring read and write speeds of up to 11,000/9,550 megabytes per second (MB/s), brings fast Gen5 performance to a wider audience. The P510, showcased alongside a robust set of demos at CES, highlights builds for various price points and computing use cases, from high-end performance gaming to professional photography and mainstream home, office, and student use. These demos feature state-of-the-art devices integrating Crucial solutions, including gaming PCs, motherboards, CPUs, and consoles from partners such as ASRock, Beelink, be quiet!, Falcon Northwest, Gigabyte, PlayStation, MECHREVO, ThundeRobot, and TRYX.
“With the exciting memory and storage offerings we’re debuting today, Crucial’s portfolio is now broader and stronger than ever before,” Dinesh Bahal, corporate vice president and general manager of Micron’s commercial products group said in a media statement. “These updates — from making fast Gen5 SSDs available to the mainstream to launching high-density memory options — illustrate our commitment to driving innovation, performance and value for every consumer from casual gamers to creatives and students to hardcore enthusiasts.”
The new SSD offerings provide fast, power-efficient storage for consumers. Built for both laptops and desktops, the P510 consumes 25 per cent less power than previous Crucial Gen5 SSDs, supporting longer battery life. Available in 1 terabyte (TB) and 2TB capacity options with an integrated heatsink, the P510 also offers a single-sided design for easy installation in newer Gen5-enabled laptops. Additionally, Crucial is expanding its SSD offerings with a heatsink version of the Crucial P310 2280 SSD, designed to fit into and work with PlayStation 5 and desktops, providing unthrottled performance with read speeds of 7,100 MB/s.
Crucial is also significantly expanding its consumer memory portfolio. Key updates include:
- Crucial DDR5 Pro overclocking gaming memory: Now available in a new 32GB density option, offering faster, smoother gameplay and multitasking without bottlenecks.
- Crucial DDR5 Pro plug-and-play memory: A new 64GB density with a speed of 5,600 MT/s, making it the world’s first DDR5 64GB module with a heat spreader, also available as a 128GB kit.
- Crucial DDR5 CUDIMM/CSODIMM: New 32GB and 64GB densities for CUDIMM and 24GB and 32GB densities for CSODIMM at 6400 MT/s, broadening the adoption of these form factors.
- Crucial DDR5 UDIMM/SODIMM: Now offering 64GB density at 5600 MT/s speed grade, providing the speed and bandwidth needed for next-generation multi-core CPUs.
- MRDIMM: Micron’s multiplexed rank dual inline memory modules (MRDIMMs) are now available, delivering the bandwidth and capacity needed for AI inference and high-performance computing applications.
In related news, Micron shares surged in early trading Tuesday after Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang revealed that Micron is supplying memory chips for Nvidia’s new graphics processing units (GPUs). During his presentation on Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 50 Blackwell gaming chips, Huang highlighted Micron as a key provider of memory for the GPUs. This announcement contributed to the excitement surrounding Micron’s presence at CES and its expanding product portfolio.
Micron Technology Inc. provides memory and storage solutions from a portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through its Micron and Crucial brands.
Micron Technology stock (NASDAQ:MU) opened trading 3.84 per cent higher at US$103.07 and is trading 27.33 per cent higher than this time, last year.
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(Top image: Micron’s NAND in an SSD with the Micron 2650. Source: Micron Technology Inc.)