Sorry everyone – if you had a hard time (everyone is trying) to buy a new GeForce RTX 30 series graphics card – it will not improve at all this year.
NVIDIA now says that 2021 will not improve for PC gamers and that the lack of GPUs will continue throughout 2021 and until 2022.We expect demand to continue to exceed supply for much of this year. Our operations team is agile and executes fantastically. We expect our reserves to increase as the year progresses“.
The company notes that a lot of graphics cards are collected not only by scalpers, but also by crypto miners, NVIDIA reacting to crypto miners who buy GPUs in large numbers with the introduction of the new Crypto Mining Processor (CMP) series.
NVIDIA relies on both TSMC and Samsung to produce its GPUs, and nothing can be done to make more graphics cards – at least in NVIDIA’s power. There are major supply chain problems, government problems, the ongoing and seemingly endless COVID-19 pandemic and millions of other things (scalpers, cryptographic miners, the huge cryptographic price boom, etc.).