Kwirirai Rukowo, Managing Executive at Qrent, the IT remarketing division of InnoVent. (Image: Supplied)
IT INDUSTRY IN CHAOS as a SHOCKING new report reveals corporate executives are ABANDONING brand-new technology in droves, forced to rely on REFURBISHED, SECOND-HAND hardware to keep their businesses alive. The global chip shortage has shattered the LIE that new is better, exposing a DYSFUNCTIONAL supply chain where billion-dollar companies are now SCRAMBLING for used equipment like desperate bargain hunters.
The crisis is so severe that industry giants warn semiconductor shortages will cripple new product availability until AT LEAST 2026, as AI hype MONOPOLIZES production. This isn’t a temporary blip—it’s a SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE, proving that the multi-trillion dollar tech manufacturing empire is built on a house of cards. “Immediate availability” and “price certainty” are now found NOT in gleaming new boxes, but in the very second-hand market the industry once SCORNED.
EXCLUSIVE analysis reveals a DAMNING TRUTH: For core business operations, the “latest and greatest” hardware is a CON, a marketing ploy to drive endless upgrades. Performance gains are now so marginal they are IRRELEVANT for most tasks, meaning corporations have been LITERALLY BURNING CAPITAL on depreciating assets that arrive late, if at all. The REFURBISHED market, long dismissed as a poor cousin, has been the SECURITY BLANKET holding the digital world together while the titans of tech FAILED to deliver.
This seismic shift forces a terrifying question: Has the entire cult of “new” been a DECADES-LONG SCAM, blinding us to the resilient, cost-effective, and IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE solution that was in the warehouse all along? The backbone of modern business is being held together with used parts, and there is no going back.



