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Research: Memory Inflation, Component Spillover, and ITAD Harvesting Strategy, 2026-2027

the component market is undergoing substantial transformation. Memory prices have doubled. Enterprise SSD supply won’t normalize until late 2027 at the earliest. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has cut off helium supply critical to chip fabrication, stalled hyperscaler data center builds, and driven freight costs high enough to break international remarketing economics. China’s rare earth export controls — with a key suspension expiring November 10, 2026 — are adding licensing friction to the same semiconductor supply chains that determine what secondary market hardware is worth.

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Presentation: ITAD Sector Review: April-to-mid-May 2026

Jun 4, 2026

This is the client’s presentation covering April to mid-May 2026. It is designed to address general trends observed by Compliance Standards and look at what April and early May 2026 headlines collectively meant for the ITAD and electronics recycling sectors.

Market Briefing – Component Market: Motherboards in Freefall as AI Soaks Up the Silicon

May 17, 2026

While global PC shipments seemingly returned to growth in Q1 2026, driven by inventory movements, leading motherboard makers are guiding for shipment declines of more than 25% as manufacturing capacity is redirected toward AI and data‑center components, tightening the screws on the traditional PC ecosystem. What it means for ITADs and recyclers.

Markets: The whitebox blind spot in PC recycling

Apr 24, 2026

There’s a growing segment of the PC market that doesn’t show up in shipment data and in market share reports, and reaches none of the channels ITAD and recycling professionals are built to serve. After tracking this industry for decades, I’ve watched it go from a...