It's no secret that we've been experiencing the biggest graphics card supply problems of the last 20 years for months. Since NVIDIA
launched the RTX 30 in September, the units have been hitting stores by droppers , not only in Spain but all over the world.
This has caused great frustration among consumers and fans of the brand who were eager to have the new generation of graphics cards with the company's green chips. The imminent arrival of one of the most anticipated games of recent times
Cyberpunk 2077 , which
implements the company's RTX and DLSS technologies , has only increased demand even more.
Until now NVIDIA has blamed the lack of supply on increased consumer demand and automated shopping bots and have avoided commenting on existing stock and production capacity.
The mystery of the lack of stock was revealed this morning when an operator, named Choi Min-sik from a Samsung subsidiary port warehouse in South Korea, noticed a merchandise in a container that was not listed in their records. Apparently the operator, who claims to be a fan of NVIDIA RayTracing, claims that he
has been seeing the NVIDIA logo for weeks on boxes stacked in the container that no one has claimed to close and take to the port for transport.
Choi says that he had been waiting for months to buy an RTX graphics card, also out of stock in his country, and dreaming of playing Fornite and Minecraft with all the brightness, reflections and light effects that the RTX 30 would give him. "See the NVIDIA logo on all those boxes every day as I passed the machine by the container only added to my frustration at not getting one. " - says the Korean operator. - "I finally decided to open one of them, and to my surprise it was a box full of RTX 3080 GPUs!"
Choi Min-sik has not hesitated to go to his superiors to report the finding. After opening all the boxes and making an inventory of the merchandise, they have determined that it is more than 500 thousand units
of NVIDIA graphics chips that include the RTX 3080, RTX 3090 and RTX 3070 that were put in the container without their correct documentation after be manufactured by Samsung in mid-August. A bureaucratic problem has been the cause of not having been registered in the register of delivery to the shipping company, and what has caused the merchandise to be lost.
The container with the GPUs should have been sent to the port of Shenzhen, in China, for distribution to companies such as Palit, PC Partner and Foxconn responsible for manufacturing graphics cards of different brands, including Founder Editions from NVIDIA.
After the discovery, NVIDIA has acknowledged that months ago they lost the merchandise and had not been able to find it. “We have been claiming this merchandise from Samsung for months.
They told us that it had already left the factory, but then they did not present us with any paper to show that it had reached its destination "- explained Jeff Fisher, vice president of the company and director of the GeForce division, in statements addressed to shareholders. .
The loss of so many GPUs in August also meant that NVIDIA had to order more build volume from Samsung than expected to meet demand. Therefore, after the discovery, the GPUs that were lost with all the manufacturing volume that was demanded to make up for their absence will be brought together. This should not only meet demand but also have more RTX 30 graphics cards than necessary, which can mean a temporary price drop of up to 15%.
The discovery has caused
NVIDIA shares to begin to rebound after several weeks of cumulative decline, as they will finally have the ability to meet demand.
Updated: This is a fake news story created and published on December 28 in celebration of the
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