No big deal. Crucial is the retail arm for Micron just as Klevv is a retail arm for SK Hynix.
Micron will continue to produce ram chips and nand flash still because servers use the same thing as consumer range stuffs , just with slightly different packaging.

More like, for today, any DRAMless SSD is low grade regardless of TLC or QLC. Its just that QLC is the super bottom of the barrel.

Western Digital owns Sandisk .
Kioxia is Toshiba
Both of them produce their own NAND flash to make SSD.

Adata is just an assembler like Kingston and Corsair. They buy every component from 3rd party , assemble them to make SSD and RAM to sell to consumers. They dont make their own critical components at all.

So Sandisk, Kioxia and Adata do not manufacture DRAM chips.

This post has been edited by k!nex: Dec 4 2025, 03:09 PM

The RAM sticks/PCB may be new. But the DRAM chips themselves are likely refurbished. FYI, Samsung and Hynix ceased production of DDR3 in 2023 and 2024.
The markings of DRAM chips can be redone easily during refurbish process. That is common practice by china companies.