Friday, June 29th 2018
Due to Reduced Demand, Graphics Cards Prices to Decline 20% in July - NVIDIA Postponing Next Gen Launch?
DigiTimes, citing "sources from the upstream supply chain", is reporting an expected decrease in graphics card pricing for July. This move comes as a way for suppliers to reduce the inventory previously piled in expectation of continued demand from cryptocurrency miners and gamers in general. It's the economic system at work, with its strengths and weaknesses: now that demand has waned, somewhat speculative price increases of yore are being axed by suppliers to spur demand. This also acts as a countermeasure to an eventual flow of graphics cards from ceasing-to-be miners to the second-hand market, which would further place a negative stress on retailers' products.
Alongside this expected 20% retail price drop for graphics cards, revenue estimates for major semiconductor manufacturer TSMC and its partners is being revised towards lower than previously-projected values, as demand for graphics and ASIC chips is further reduced. DigiTimes' sources say that the worldwide graphics card market now has an inventory of several million units that is being found hard to move (perhaps because the products are already ancient in the usual hardware tech timeframes), and that Nvidia has around a million GPUs still pending logistical distribution. Almost as an afterthought, DigiTimes also adds that NVIDIA has decided to postpone launch of their next-gen products (both 12 nm and then, forcibly, 7 nm) until supply returns to safe levels.
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Digi Times
Alongside this expected 20% retail price drop for graphics cards, revenue estimates for major semiconductor manufacturer TSMC and its partners is being revised towards lower than previously-projected values, as demand for graphics and ASIC chips is further reduced. DigiTimes' sources say that the worldwide graphics card market now has an inventory of several million units that is being found hard to move (perhaps because the products are already ancient in the usual hardware tech timeframes), and that Nvidia has around a million GPUs still pending logistical distribution. Almost as an afterthought, DigiTimes also adds that NVIDIA has decided to postpone launch of their next-gen products (both 12 nm and then, forcibly, 7 nm) until supply returns to safe levels.
67 Comments on Due to Reduced Demand, Graphics Cards Prices to Decline 20% in July - NVIDIA Postponing Next Gen Launch?
So at this point I'll Just keep waiting for new graphics cards to build a new pc, I won't buy anything less than 1180 and I won't pay more than the MSRP of the current 1080ti.
Finally, the most important “no” is that they don’t replace the 1080Ti. They replace the 1070 and 1080 in the lineup.
1080Ti gets replaced by, you guessed it, the 1180Ti. You need to stop confusing performance with placement in the product stack.
In order to stay on topic, I will buy the card this month if I see prices drop :)
I'd like to grab an upgrade soon myself and thinking if I do, I know I can wait and see what comes around and for how much.
I'm gonna buy most of that stock so that my fellow gamers can buy next gen cards at great prices and really enjoy the benefits of the new technology. :toast:
1. AMD comes out with even a semblance of competition.
2. Customers stop buying
The consumer has control over only one of those options.