In a recent report from Hardware Times, Nvidia has spent around $9 billion dollars in a bid to secure 5nm chips from TSMC for the company’s upcoming 4000 series. Compare this to last year, during the same quarter, in which Jensen Huang and co spent $2.54 billion. With everything that’s been going on with this generation, and the difficulty with which it’s been to produce and sell GPUs, it’s not too surprising that the tech giant is taking steps to ensure it has a better chance of meeting supply with demand once the next generation kicks in.
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Late last year, it was rumored that the Nvidia 4000 series could be out in the middle of this year. However, the report goes on to say that it’s looking more like Lovelace will be available September time, so that’s more towards the latter parts of Q3. The question will be whether or not tech companies, graphics card or otherwise, will be able to make amends as, while the deficit continues to rage on, there is the possibility that things may start to improve over the coming months, though no one can be 100% certain.
Intel believes the semiconductor shortage could go on until 2023, so that means that, providing the next generation of GPUs hits this year, there is likely to still be some problems at the manufacturing end, which will affect the consumer market of course. On top of Nvidia spending billions for 5nm chips, Intel has also said it wants to produce “millions” of its Arc cards to combat the ongoing difficulties.
With graphics cards now starting to come down in price a bit, though still a long way from MSRP, there’s still some pessimism in the industry. However, given the knowledge of what’s been going on, Nvidia looking to secure components for the 4000 series could make things a little bit easier. Whether it will actually work remains to be seen.
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Source: Hardware Times
