Hardware Lifecycle & Depreciation Indices
Mathematically rigorous reference metrics tracking empirical silicon depreciation, architectural premiums, and asset lifecycles. Designed for chip manufacturers, datacenter CFOs, equipment leasing desks, and asset-backed lenders.
Pure Architectural Premium Index
Measures the exact financial premium buyers pay strictly for next-generation silicon architectures (such as Blackwell over Hopper) after rigorously controlling for memory capacity and theoretical mathematical scaling. For chip architects and infrastructure strategists, it isolates the true market value of generational innovations—such as lower-precision FP4/FP8 tensor cores and next-gen NVLink interconnects—cutting through vendor marketing to validate real-world performance gains. For tech investors, hardware lessors, and corporate procurement executives, it informs multi-million dollar upgrade cycles by quantifying whether premium launch prices translate into proportional operational advantages.
| Frontier (B200 vs H100) | Mid-Cycle (H200 vs H100) | Legacy (H100 vs A100) | Inference (L4 vs A10) |
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Silicon Deflator (Decay Curve)
Replaces arbitrary straight-line accounting schedules with a continuous, empirical mark-to-market decay curve tracking the real-time residual value of GPU hardware fleets. For engineering teams managing physical clusters, it pinpoints the optimal economic window for fleet refresh and secondary-market hardware divestment before rapid residual value decay sets in. For CFOs, equipment lessors, and credit rating agencies, it provides the transparent, data-driven depreciation model required to accurately book balance-sheet asset values, set conservative loan covenants, and underwrite equipment residual values.
| H100 SXM5 | A100 SXM4 | L40S PCIe | A10G PCIe |
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