Memory crunch makes refurbished kit look a lot less secondhand

Rising memory prices are pushing more customers toward refurbished tech, suppliers say, with warranties of up to three years helping to make secondhand kit a less daunting purchase.Memory costs have more than quadrupled this year as manufacturers prioritize more lucrative high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for servers powering AI datacenters.Many enterprises are keeping equipment longer in an uncertain economy. Ben Caddy, senior analyst at Omdia, said suppliers were linking refresh discussions with opportunities to recover value from customers' aging kit.By 2030, he predicted, 35 percent of "all the hardware sold for the channel will be taken back by partners," driven "by the sheer economic logic of taking equipment back, recovering value, and...

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