Friday, April 14th 2023
Component Suppliers Suggest That NVIDIA is Taking a Relaxed Approach with RTX 40-Series Production
Two of NVIDIA's providers of Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) services are of the opinion that Team Green is happy to stay the course with its Ada Lovelace GPU production schedule. The backend providers Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) have not been given any new instructions with regard to shifts (up or down) in component assembly output. It is theorized that NVIDIA is aiming to clear any stock backlogs of graphics card models featuring previous generation architecture - namely the second gen GeForce RTX 30-series, built on Ampere.
The retail demand for the newly released GeForce RTX 4070 cards has been mild, to say the least - with plenty of inventory remaining on the shelves in the States. Critical reception of the midweight GeForce RTX GPU has also been middling - many have advised that budget conscience buyers should potentially look elsewhere. The market for discrete graphics card is in a fairly healthy state at the moment, with major production issues and fractured supply chains becoming lesser concerns for electronics manufacturers. NVIDIA has the advantage of being a market leader, and seems to be quite content with proceedings - but their analysts are very likely keeping an eye on the RTX 4070 sales figures. Its products are out and readily available - no need to change direction too sharply.
Source:
DigiTimes
The retail demand for the newly released GeForce RTX 4070 cards has been mild, to say the least - with plenty of inventory remaining on the shelves in the States. Critical reception of the midweight GeForce RTX GPU has also been middling - many have advised that budget conscience buyers should potentially look elsewhere. The market for discrete graphics card is in a fairly healthy state at the moment, with major production issues and fractured supply chains becoming lesser concerns for electronics manufacturers. NVIDIA has the advantage of being a market leader, and seems to be quite content with proceedings - but their analysts are very likely keeping an eye on the RTX 4070 sales figures. Its products are out and readily available - no need to change direction too sharply.
33 Comments on Component Suppliers Suggest That NVIDIA is Taking a Relaxed Approach with RTX 40-Series Production
While they pray gpu mining takes off again.
More layoffs = a lot less tax collecting and more government spending (unemployment, etc.) on its citizens and a freeze on their regular expenditures.
Musk, etc. has already reported the upcoming recession that will last for a while = definitely less CapEx spending.
What's left out though is a lot of these companies usage cases do not work with consumer GPUs. They need the professional, or enterprise/server based products.
AMD and Intel need to get into ffing gear
everyone takes sides, sad but true that team green trolls more than red.
Long gone are the days that I paid $125 USD on a mint condition R9 Fury X, even in the richer nations, I doubt most people have $2000 to throw around like it's nothing.
But it's not because we're well off that other people are. By aggregating value on something that's effectively worthless, all you're doing is ensuring that people cannot enjoy it. People don't need GPUs to survive, man.
Like you've said before, to us it's a toy, to some people it's a tool to earn a living, but in all cases, it's not an asset, it's something which has a predefined useful life and will become obsolete in a relatively short time span, so it cannot be priced out of reach. To do so is to elitize and seal a sad, lonely fate for our hobby.
$600 is a very high end GPU's price, this... isn't it, even if I see it's very commendable positives.
You sound pretty ellitist when you imply that GPU are only useful when they are not obsolete LOL, practically all GPU are useful when they are still working, there are all sort of games and settings for every GPU, even gtx1030 owners can play games too you know.
GPUs are like toys, if you can afford it and have fun with it, why not, don't get too political with it. Have you ever seen people protesting against LEGO? that stuff is expensive AF
The 10 series are now 6 years old.