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Could this have been the reason for chip shortage?

• fennecfoxen 5y ago
  Do you think 6,080 GPUs — admittedly very large ones — are sufficient to explain the chip shortage?
• hmate9 5y ago
  No, this is way too small in scale vs the global demand.
• zydex 5y ago
  Nvidia and AMD shipped 12.7m cards collectively in 2021, I don't know what the breakdown is on consumer vs corporate but I find it hard to believe this had any impact. Correction: terafo pointed out they shipped 12.7m cards in Q3 2021 alone.
  • terafo 5y ago
    It was not 12.7 million in 2021. It was 12.7 million in Q3 2021.
    • zydex 5y ago
      Where did you see that? This was my source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/gpu-shipments-increased-by-25-percent-despite-shortage/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/gpu-shipments-increa... "Nvidia and AMD shipped 12.7 million cards in 2021" Please correct me if I'm misreading or clearly missing something.
      • terafo 5y ago
        If you look at the source article it is clearly stated. >Year over year, total AIB shipments increased by 25.7% this quarter compared to last year at 12.7 million units, and up quarter-to-quarter from 11.47 million units in Q2’21.
        • zydex 5y ago
          Understood, thank you for clarifying.
• terafo 5y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30064173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30064173