It was coming, and yes, we have some bad news for gamers who were expecting the current situation with graphics card stock to improve this year. According to industry analysts, the global shortage of GPUs will remain until 2022, as the current demand for chips exceeds supply by approximately 30%. Thus, it is estimated that it will take between three and four quarters for supply to meet demand.
In other words, this means that we will be talking about 1 and a half years out of stock, taking into account the release date of the new graphics cards. This without considering that it will take three to six more months to get the stores to restock once the manufacturers return to production at full speed.
“We believe semi-companies are shipping 10-30% below current demand levels and it will take at least 3-4 quarters for supply to meet demand, and another 1-2 quarters to bring inventories in customers / distribution channels back to normal levels, ”said Harlan Sur, an analyst at JP Morgan.
On the other hand, Hardware Times reported that different manufacturers such as Gigabyte, ASUS, and MSI, are receiving less than 20 units of the RTX 3080 for the entire South Asian region. In addition, it is indicated that China received only 100 units during the month of February, crazy.
Recall that the giant of the semiconductor industry, TSMC, announced an investment of 28,000 million dollars to expand its facilities during 2021. However, it will take many months until the works have been completed and production with such improvements begins.
We will have to arm ourselves with patience since the lack of stock is not expected to improve until 2022. Are you waiting to change the GPU?
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