However, we reached out to Samsung to inquire about the situation, and the company’s spokesperson denied the reports, stating that the rumors are false.
The rumor regarding the phasing out of Samsung SATA or other SSDs is false.
- Samsung Electronics spokesperson
The way I see it, there’s more money in everyone not having computers in the traditional sense, but having low powered, cheap devices that need replacing every couple of years, and all compute is done through cloud services and AI platforms. So there’s currently profit in data centres eating up all the available hardware, increasing the price of those components to the end user, and eventually pricing everyone out of owning any device that can actually compute until our only option is another subscription, and another, and another.