Tokyo Store Pleads for Your Old PCs as AI-Driven Hardware Crunch Tightens
A large Tokyo electronics retailer, Sofmap Gaming in Akihabara, is begging customers to sell their old gaming PCs as shelves empty due to soaring PC-part prices driven by AI data centers, with RAM and GPUs in short supply and prebuilt PCs potentially rising in price, prompting the call for used rigs and components.