Jensen Huang: We have officially ran out of 3080s and 3070s.
Board Member - McCaffery: Don't forget the 3060 Ti, we're out of those as well.
Huang: ....Yes. Well, we are on the verge of our latest GPU. I give you, the GTX 3060!
(resounding applause from around the conference room)
Board Member - Stevens: We made the best revenue from selling majority of our previous lines to "performance testers". Are we slated to run the same gambit on this lot?
Board Member - Hudson: "Performance testers"?
Stevens: We've been over this. There's a lot of negative publicity tied to crypto farming with GPUs. So to avoid mincing of words we....well, damn it. Read the packet in front of you.
Huang: Yes, "performance testers" will be sold the vast majority of GPUs as we continue to inform the public that we are working diligently to ramp up production on GPUs all while we let them believe the issue is caused by supply and demand issues created by the current global covid crisis. Keep that phrase in people's mind and they won't look anywhere else. Remember everyone, "global covid crisis" is the main culprit to our "supply shortage".
(a thundering laughter erupts from the board members and you here a few members repeat "supply shortage" between laughs)
Haung: Calm down....calm down. MSRP is $329.
(stifled laughs trickle across the members of the board)
Haung: We keep the MSRP prices down while we know the "supply shortage" will cause our AIB partners to mark up GPUs by 50% or more to help sell this "supply shortage" we're suffering. As you can see the circle we've created:
One - limit our product on our end.
Two - sell majority of inventory to "performance testers"
Three - ensure folks we are doing all we can to overcome the "supply shortage" from the "global covid crisis" and we are ramping up production
Four - List a low MSRP that we know cannot be met due to "supply shortage" and AIB partners will have to post higher prices.
Five - Finger pointing at us will be limited as most folks will direct their attention to AIB, scalpers and crypt...."performance testers".
Six - When asked about our production, we go back to step three and repeat ad nauseam.