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Selling Retired Enterprise GPUs and AI Accelerators: What to Check Before You Ship

By BSR Admin / September 7, 2026 /

Selling retired enterprise GPUs involves more than comparing the highest quote. This guide covers inventory, health data, buyer selection, inspection terms, shipping, and payment before the hardware leaves your facility.

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RAM Market Update: 64GB DDR5-6000 Up 473% as DDR4 16Gb Spot Prices Exceed DDR5 — August 2026

By BSR Admin / September 1, 2026 /

RAM prices remain exceptionally high in August 2026. Average 64GB DDR5-6000 prices are up 473% year over year, while the DRAM spot market shows an unusual split between DDR4 and DDR5. This update tracks retail prices, spot pricing, supply conditions and implications for IT asset managers.

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Intel unveils a 256-core Diamond Rapids Xeon. What’s inside?

By BSR Admin / August 25, 2026 /

TL;DR Diamond Rapids tops out at 256 P-cores, double the 128 in today’s Xeon 6980P. Intel detailed it at Hot Chips on 24 August; it ships in the second half of 2027. Hyperthreading is gone, so 256 cores means 256 threads — the same count the 128-core 6980P already delivers. SMT returns in the next…

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DRAM Prices Are Still Rising. Long-Term Contracts Are Changing Who Pays More.

By BSR Admin / August 22, 2026 /

Server DRAM prices are still rising, but multi-year contracts mean the next increase will not hit every buyer equally. Contract coverage, procurement channel and configuration flexibility increasingly determine an organization’s exposure.

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Samsung Reportedly Raised 4nm Prices by Up to 15%. HBM4 Helps Explain Why.

By BSR Admin / August 21, 2026 /

Samsung reportedly raised some 4nm foundry prices by as much as 15%. The overlooked reason is HBM4: its logic base die also consumes Samsung’s SF4 foundry capacity.

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Do AI Agents Really Need One CPU per GPU?

By BSR Admin / August 17, 2026 /

TL;DR Agents do need more CPU than chatbots did, but no published study shows the right number is one CPU per GPU. In real traffic, the CPU work of running code and searching databases took as long as the model itself in over a quarter of requests. The chips being sold for this are ordinary…

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