GPU shortage to extend into 2022

GeForce RTX 2060. © Nvidia.

Low supply and big demand: this continues to dictate the market for graphics cards. That’s bad news for those who were counting on their availability next year. Last April, Nvidia warned that the severe shortage would last through 2021, but it now looks like it will extend into 2022 as well. Speaking in a conference call on the FY2022 second quarter’s earnings, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared “I would expect that we will see a supply-constrained environment for the vast majority of next year is my guess at the moment” in a transcription picked up by Videocardz.

Despite it all, Nvidia is sailing along with record earnings of US$ 6.51 billion this quarter alone, a 68% increase over last year. Components expressly for games account for US$ 3.06 billion of global revenue, up 85% from the previous year. Most of its gaming GPUs for PC (80%) ship with LHR (Lite Hash Rate) enabled to prevent the cards from being hijacked by cryptocurrency miners.

⇨ The Verge, Tom Warren, “Nvidia expects GPU supply constraints for the ‘vast majority’ of 2022.”

2021-08-19