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.
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New Tech: Can modular metals recovery challenge the smelter model?
A UK-based startup is testing a different approach to extracting metals from electronic scrap, one that could influence how downstream recovery fits into the IT asset disposition and recycling chain.
The PC Market’s “Memflation” Moment: Why Q1 Shipment Growth Is a Mirage
PC shipment data from Gartner and IDC suggests a healthy market on the surface, but both firms warn that Q1 2026 growth is being driven by inventory build, rising memory costs, and Windows 10 migration rather than real demand.
For ITAD and recycling executives, memflation is likely to boost residual values for Windows 11-capable enterprise fleets even as a large cohort of non-upgradeable Windows 10 devices tilts toward materials recovery, while shifting vendor share, growing Apple volumes, and geopolitical freight shocks force a rethink of pricing, logistics, and Apple-specific capabilities over the next 18–36 months.
Future Tech: AI Vision Is Moving From Lab to Line in E‑Waste Sorting
When injecting AI into ITAD and electronics recycling operations, most organizations are still at an early,...
Apple’s MacBook Neo: iFixit’s best MacBook score in 14 years, but the residual value ceiling is real
Apple just shipped its most recyclable and most repairable laptop to date, and priced it at $599. For an industry that...
Technology: How AI’s Breakneck Pace Is Outrunning Enterprise Strategy and Your IT Refresh Cycle
Transcript: Anthropic — one of the leading AI companies in the world, backed by over $30 billion in fresh funding at a...
Industry Alert: Brace For a Printer Surge as Microsoft Ends Legacy Driver Support this Year
Just as the end of Windows 10 support triggered an unusually high PC refresh cycle, Microsoft's decision to end legacy...
From CES to the shredder: What 2026 PCs mean for ITAD
In Las Vegas, CES 2026 provided a glimpse of what ITAD companies and electronics recyclers will be confronting three...
Where to Invest in Future Decommissioning Corridors: The Geographic and Utility Forces Reshaping U.S. Data Centers
The U.S. data center landscape is shifting from a historically concentrated model anchored in Northern Virginia toward...
Bridging Distribution and Lifecycle: How Ingram Micro is Doing it and Lessons for the ITAM/ITAD Sectors
Ingram Micro’s latest quarterly results reveal a rapid acceleration beyond traditional IT distribution and into the...
The Windows 10 Sunset: How Enterprise Refresh Cycles Will Reshape ITAD, Refurbishment, and Urban Mining (2026–2028)
The approaching end of Microsoft’s Windows 10 era will set in motion one of the most synchronized technology...
iPhone 17’s Sustainability Profile Improves in Recycled Content and Security, But Repairability Stagnates
Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max arrive with a mix of sustainability upgrades, new design choices, and expanded...
Semiconductor 2Q2025 Sector Results and Implications on Hardware Decommissioning Industry
The latest semiconductor earnings reveal a sharp divide whereby AI and data centers are fueling extraordinary growth,...
Windows 10’s August Spike: Final Surge Before Sunset, Driven by the Secondary Market
When StatCounter released its global operating system figures for August 2025, one line on the chart stood out. See...
AI’s Transformative Impact on ITAD Procurement
This report is about how artificial intelligence is quietly but decisively transforming the way enterprises evaluate...
Strategic Foresight: The Future ITAD Factory is Already Here
In my two decades tracking the IT asset disposition and electronics recycling sectors, I had the opportunity to visit...
More than half of US enterprises don’t track their laptops, as 22% of the retired assets are missing
Compliance has been a key requirement driving enterprise IT asset disposition (ITAD), and is indeed a...
IT Asset Disposition Sector: 2014 Predictions
This year, Compliance Standards is debuting its predictions for the IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) space for the year...