It would not surprize me. For what i have seen, Nvidia have all ready lowered the order of GPU chips from TSMC and with mining GPU flodding the used market.
This claim was made by that Youtuber as well, but anyone making a such claim doesn't understand how microprocessors are made. Production of a batch of chips takes ~4 months, so anything coming out of the factories in the next months was decided many months ago. The amount of wafers are decided years in advance, which is why Nvidia and AMD can't do much with their production volume in the short term. They can adjust which chips they make within their wafer allocations, but even that takes ~6 months to take affect in the market.
Also the Ampere chips are made by Samsung, so that's not even relevant, which limits this to RTX 40 series, which will be in very limited quantity anyways this year.
It's
extremely unlikely that Nvidia would cancel some of their RTX 40 batches, as ordering more later would be much more cosyly. If Nvidia will be holding back anything artificially, they would just stockpile the chips.
Why doesn't Nvidia buy them back, test them and refurbish... after all they sold them by the pallets directly to miners, fix ur own shit instead of letting people buy defective 70C damp shed abused miner cards.
It would be virtually impossible for Nvidia to determine how "worn" the GPUs are.
Why people keep watching these tech illtreated Youtubers and tech sites reposting them? Moore's Law Is Dead "sources" confirmed Nvidia stopped RTX 30, 3090Ti delayed indefinitely etc. etc. His report is based on Digitimes article. Why repost if new leak showed up?
NVIDIA is reportedly looking to reduce orders for 5 nm wafers from TSMC as it anticipates a significant drop in demand from both gamers and crypto-currency miners. Miners are flooding the market with used GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards, which gamers are all too happy to buy, affecting...
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Tech news sites needs to stop caring about these random Youtubers all together. That guy is one of many who just searches Reddit, forums and news sites for trends and rumors and makes some guesses around that.
Anyone who stops to think about it would realize that there is no chance a random guy has numerous sources inside Nvidia, AMD, Intel, etc. willing to risk their careers for feeding him some spicy info.
And as I've been saying for years, you can debunk most of these guys from basic facts, like architectural features and hardware designs don't change last minute (while prices and clocks can), so when you catch them with any such discrepancy, then you know they are lying.
This doesn't sound logical to me at all.
The used market brings nothing to Nvidia's table. If they launched the 40-series now, it would only push down the price of used 30-series cards. Why would Nvidia even care?
Not to mention that the second-hand GPU market isn't widespread globally.
If anything, I would say mining has ruined the second-hand market.