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What to blame for the 3000 Series shortage of cards

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Does anyone know what is causing the major shortage of the 3000 series GPU's ?

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Shortage of memory chips ?
Shortage of GPU chips ?
Due to the COVID-19 virus ?
Something else ?
 
Covid-19 is definitely a factor, it's impacting all global logistics and supply chains. We also know that all these devices are produced in China where they've just had a national holiday (golden week) where most people stop working for like 8 days. We've also seen far higher than normal demand for the cards with traffic to retail sites being in the order of 10x their previous peaks. This is also the first time we've seen clear examples of bots scalping products in a major way as evidenced by the supply going onto places like ebay and being shipped off to mining farms for cryptocurrency mining.

People blame Nvidia but I'm quite sure what it is they were supposed to have done differently.
 
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