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Server CPU prices are still climbing in mid-2026, and more hikes are already signaled

By BSR Admin / June 12, 2026 /

For two years the data-center story was all about GPUs and the memory feeding them. CPUs were the boring line item: you bought one or two per node to babysit the accelerators and moved on. That assumption broke this spring. On Intel’s Q1 2026 earnings call, Intel’s CFO said the ratio of CPUs to GPUs…

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From RTX Spark to AGI CPU: Arm’s Two-Front Challenge to x86

By BSR Admin / June 5, 2026 /

Arm CEO Rene Haas shared a Computex 2026 stage with NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang to talk about “redefining the PC”. The same week, two things landed at once: NVIDIA’s RTX Spark put an Arm chip inside mainstream Windows laptops, and Arm’s first-ever data center processor, the Arm AGI CPU, was confirmed heading into mass production. That’s…

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Why AI Is Causing a Global CPU Shortage — And What It Means for Your Business

By BSR Admin / May 4, 2026 /

If you’ve tried to buy a server CPU lately, you’ve probably noticed something alarming: prices are up, lead times are stretching into months, and the chips you need might simply be unavailable. This isn’t a supply chain hiccup or a temporary logistics snag. It’s the direct result of a seismic shift happening inside the world’s…

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