← Atlas Theme · spans 1 topics
Generational churn strands the vendor's inventory while the installed fleet re-prices upward.
Each retiring chip generation strands its unsold units with whoever holds them — in this cycle the vendor itself — because demand still outruns supply at every generation except the one being retired, so obsolescence surfaces as seller write-downs rather than falling rents or weak usage.
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Nvidia capex
Demand Gauges: CoreWeave Sees "Absolutely Not Any Reduction in Orders" — and Margins "Expanding Faster Than the Rates Are Going Up" The only hard obsolescence loss lands on the vendor's own stranded inventory even as installed H100s sign four-year contracts at rising rates.
Nvidia capex
The Macro Ledger Hardens: $9T Through 2032, a $4.2T Revenue Gap, and the 3–5% Productivity Bar Nvidia's Valuation Now Implies Deployed silicon of every vintage re-prices upward, confirming scarcity at every generation except the one being retired — the other half of the churn law.