(Image credit: Madhav Banka / X)

Micron’s plans to shutter its Crucial consumer business next year did not stop the brand from appearing on the show floor at Delhi Comic Con over the weekend. A visitor took to X to share images of the Micron and Crucial branded booth, only days after the company told investors it would wind down consumer products by February 2026.

Micron’s presence was likely planned months in advance in collaboration with Indian partners and doesn’t represent a sudden U-turn on the decision to shutter its consumer business. Neither Micron nor Crucial is listed among the event’s headline exhibitors, and while Micron’s presence might seem unusual following last week’s announcement, it’s entirely understandable that the company wants to shift existing inventory ahead of February as the company reallocates its wafer supply to HBM and enterprise DRAM.

I was not kidding.Micron has set up a booth at Delhi Comic Con, and they’re showcasing their RAMs and SSDs. The funny part? Their consumer business is closing down next year. https://t.co/ZKopKHLOfZ pic.twitter.com/WoTWnuEPMWDecember 7, 2025

Ultimately, distributors and retailers still have stock to move, and partner booths at events and gaming shows remain one of the most effective ways to reach buyers in India’s growing PC market. Micron’s timeline gives those partners ample time to clear their shelves of soon-to-be-retired stock.

Micron’s December 3 announcement described a consumer exit shaped by AI demand rather than short-term performance in the retail channel. The company said it would retire Crucial as a consumer-facing business and concentrate investment on HBM memory lines feeding enterprise customers. The shift is intended to support advanced data-center products during a period of constrained supply and rising AI requirements.

HBM’s engineering is nothing like the consumer memory Micron is stepping away from. The technology stacks multiple dies into a single package and links them through dense vertical interconnects, producing far higher bandwidth per watt than conventional DDR and turning memory into a performance enabler rather than a bottleneck.

That is important at a time when hyperscalers are racing to stand up ever-larger AI clusters and where each new generation of GPUs pushes memory throughput harder than capacity. For Micron, the growth prospects and margins attached to HBM outstrip anything available in the price-sensitive retail channel, and the company’s decision places its wafer supply squarely behind the memory technologies that now define competitiveness in AI infrastructure.

In the meantime, consumer inventory remains, and resellers need to continue to promote it to shift inventory. The Delhi Comic Con booth is simply a reflection of that fact; a snapshot of a brand still active in public even as its parent company prepares to abandon consumers and concentrate on more lucrative memory technologies.

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Luke James is a freelance writer and journalist. Although his background is in legal, he has a personal interest in all things tech, especially hardware and microelectronics, and anything regulatory.