Have you all watched the Gamers Nexus video with actual concrete numbers of cards received by one retailer? It's a bloody joke. Has to be Nvidia causing the problem considering how low it is across the board:
https://youtu.be/0kyyhkNOclk?t=587
The number of incoming cards at 0 is really worrying!
Yes we all know the position, and it's probably because the companies are having to use the pre production small board stuffers who exist to produce boards which are small number and can be quickly modified in order to get some product out.
I've worked in a wafer fab when the UK still had them, and I've worked with machines capable of placing half a million SMD components an hour What have you done?
When Apple says it's delaying its production by a month, everyone else feels the effect, the volumes as mind boggling, they don't just produce iPhones, and this launch also has a slew of ancilliaries. How do you explain the same issue affecting Microsofts Xbox? Nvidia don't make any chips for that ! The common factor is they are both assembled at Foxconns plant in China.