Shipping on containers, loading, unloading, driving to and from docks and warehouses all takes people. With Covid people were laid off, isolating at home or couldn’t work. Yes the manufacture is mostly automated but the stuff that gets your card from Taiwan or China isn’t automated.
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How are AMD & Nvidia such badly run companies?
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I suspect that’s because no one is buying due to the performance uplift from the newer stuff. It’s all stock they can’t shift.
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Doesn't it boil down to 'because they can'?
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It's strange how tech seems more affected than anything else though, wouldn't you say? Everything else seems to be ticking along, and I haven't seen anything else in short supply except for tech.
Well, wing the only manufacturers of high end graphics cards, yes, but they know the demand is there for them to sell ten times what they can manufacture right now. If they could manufacture the cards, why wouldn’t they?
Luxuries in lockdown situations are always popular. People have said finding guitars or bikes has been difficult recently too. Hornby, makers of Scalextric and Airfix models have said their sales are through the roof. People are looking for things to do at home.It's strange how tech seems more affected than anything else though, wouldn't you say? Everything else seems to be ticking along, and I haven't seen anything else in short supply except for tech.
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Even jigsaw puzzles are having demand issues.
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The first reply is also the best.
But (also) seriously, businesses literally exist to take advantage of consumers. It's just that this experience has become more raw and pervasive in the PC building hobby in recent years because it's become too popular.
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The first reply is also the best.
But (also) seriously, businesses literally exist to take advantage of consumers. It's just that this experience has become more raw and pervasive in the PC building hobby in recent years because it's become too popular.
It also lacks competition, which is becoming more and more evident with each passing year. Lack of competition is literally the worst thing in a capitalist business model.
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We need to get Matrox properly back in the game.
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We need at least another one or two manufacturers, otherwise I genuinely fear price fixing is going to be a thing in the near future. The consumer literally has no other options but these two companies, and they know it!
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Or as we have seen, neither company.
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I wish I could just walk away, I honestly do. But I have too many games on this platform, literally hundreds.
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It's strange how tech seems more affected than anything else though, wouldn't you say? Everything else seems to be ticking along, and I haven't seen anything else in short supply except for tech.
What you mean like how supermarkets never ran out of anything during the lockdown (toilet paper being a case in point).
Also, did anyone try to buy a mountain bike during lockdown? I tried but everywhere was sold out.
Lots of other industries were affected but you have to remember that every step in the manufacturing chain of these GPUs was affected, from the fabs closing down for several weeks to transportation out of China coming to a halt.
All these things have had a knock on effect resulting in the delays we are seeing now. For all we know, the products are there, just not shipped out of China yet.
Hopefully over the next 2-4 weeks we will see stock arrive for us to buy and fap over
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I wish I could just walk away, I honestly do. But I have too many games on this platform, literally hundreds.
I'm not even a big gamer but it really disgusts me to think that if I have to upgrade in another five years 'the' prices might just be fixed around £1000 and that's considered normality.
i did look at 5000 series, but pointless over my nitro, its not a million mies away at 1440p, 20% at most looking at benches, less when OC
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We ran out because morons were hoarding it. General supply was actually good, they just couldn't get it to the shops fast enough to replace sales. There was no shortage at distribution level.
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Apple can at least deliver the products they sell to the customers on time. This same Apple can deliver M1 (bottom of the barrel chip), which smoke both Intel's & AMD's...
Intel stuff is crap, but again they usually delivery their products when they go on sale.
Issue with companies like Nvidia & AMD, this keeps on happening over & over again at every launch. Wait for next GPU release, you will see the same **** show.
And I did buy AMD stocks, when it was nearly at $7 back in 2016. Worker out quite well for me, thanks for asking.
Only one feeling emotional & unhappy here is you mate. But you're right we should never dare to criticise these companies, they are the best & always deliver. Sorry AMD & Nvidia.
Have read a number of posts now and got to here. You keep saying they both fail constantly but I don't know anyone whom really had any issues for anything right up to the 1000 series GPU.
With that it really has only been this generation that's had such massive issues. Further to that Apple are deffo going through issues too with having many phone on back order now for 5-6 weeks and similar.
Also the M1 isn't smoking the competition. At this point you sound more like a troll or just uninformed and think apple is king.
totally agree i work in retail and experienced the same thing, the supermarkets cant prepare for idiots hoarding bog rolls, was like a plague of locusts, our shop was stripped mulitple times, selfishness took over