Tagged “electronics”
Nvidia's New CPU Is for Servers. What It Threatens Is the Secondhand Laptop Market.
Modal adopting Nvidia's Vera processor is a data centre story with no laptop in it. For laptops it still matters twice: it weakens the case for buying an AI PC, and it advances an architecture shift with a history of stranding working machines.
A Circuit Board Holds Sixty Elements. Europe's Best Smelter Recovers Seventeen.
A motherboard is richer than gold ore, and recycling it is judged by weight. Iron is over 70% of an electronic's mass and under 15% of its thermodynamic value, so a recycler can hit the target while losing almost everything that made the board matter.
America's Secondhand Phone Market Is Booming. Nobody Can Tell You How Big It Is.
Estimates of the US used and refurbished phone market disagree by factors, come almost entirely from commercial research firms, and in one case contradict themselves. The best-evidenced number describes the failure, not the success.
America Recycles 38% of Its Electronics. The Last Time Anyone Measured Was 2018.
The EPA put the US consumer electronics recycling rate at 38.5%. That figure is from 2018 and no newer national number has been published, because no federal law requires anyone to produce one.
India's E-Waste Rules Are Tightening. The Trade Is Moving, Not Shrinking.
India generates nearly 1.4 million tonnes of e-waste a year, and most of it moves through an informal network that beats formal recyclers on collection. New rules and a contested price floor are squeezing that network.
Right to Repair Is Law Now. That Was the Easy Part.
The EU directive deadline passed in July. Several US states have statutes. But New York's was weakened before signing, enforcement has barely started, and the one long-running dataset shows self-declared repair scores running high.
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Best Places to Sell a Used Laptop: A Complete Guide for US Residents
Every realistic option for selling a used laptop in the US, what each one actually pays, and how to decide between the highest price and the least hassle.