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Nvidia's CEO doesn't see an ending to the chip shortage anytime soon

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition graphics card at various angles

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Any gamer that's tried to bargain a GPU or a console in the last 18 months knows all too well fair-and-square how sorry the market situation is. Pandemic related shortages show few signs of alleviation. High involve and furnish bottlenecks continue to score the play industry hard. Oh, and let's not forget whol that GPU minelaying demand too!

Those looking for for some rays of trust in the breakable term might have to lower their expectations following comments from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Huang made the comments during an interview with Yahoo Finance to discuss its recent GTC tech showcase.

"I believe that through the adjacent year, demand is going to farther exceed supply. We don't have any deceptio bullets in navigating the supply chain," Huang said. Ouch.

Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger shares a similar vague short condition view. "We're in the worst of it now, quarterly next year we'll commence incrementally fitter, but they're not going to have supply-demand balance until 2023," Gelsinger said during a past interview with CNBC to discuss Intel's tertiary quarter earnings.

If your core just sank a little, in that respect should be some hope coming for buyers looking to bribe a GPU at somewhere near RRP. GPU pricing and availability should gradually get better in 2022 as Ethereum shifts towards proofread of hazard and forth from GPU based proof of work. Excavation purchases will drop disconnected antecedent to the switch as there will be less clip to deduct the costs of expensive purchases. That's the theory anyway. To boot, Intel's Alchemist GPUs could provide welcome ply if they're able to propose a in good order level of price/performance.

Back to the short term, things might be thus bad that Black Fri gross revenue could live affected. Can we really wait manufacturers or retailers to propose deep discounts at once when demand exceeds supply? We'll be whol over the best deals arsenic we always are, but this year, you might need to be especially quick if you'Ra a gamer hoping to grab a really drool creditable bargain.

Chris' gaming experiences whirl back to the nineties when he conned his parents into purchasing an 'educational PC' that was handily overpowered to play Doom and Tie Fighter. He formed a love of extreme overclocking that destroyed his savings despite the cheaper hardware on fling via his job at a PC store. To afford more LN2 he began moonlighting as a reviewer for VR-Zone before jump the fence to work for MSI Australia. Since then, he's gone back to journalism, enthusiastically reviewing the a la mode and greatest components for PC & Tech Government agency, PC Powerplay and presently Australian Personal Computer magazine and PC Gamer. Chris still puts far too many hours into Borderlands 3, ever striving to become a more economic killer.