NVidia Admitted That It Didn’t Calculate Demand

Recent announcement video cards made a splash – both in the information media and in retail.
As a result, the demand has exceeded any imaginable supply, video cards in official stores or not, or they are sold at crazy prices.

A few days ago, Nvidia finally officially admitted that Samsung, which makes chips for video cards, cannot supply enough.
The company also acknowledges that the problem is not only in the number of crystals:

“The production capacity of our partners is limited, and, as we can see, these limitations do not coincide with requests for new video cards. We continue to work on optimizing supply and increasing production, however, we can say that demand is likely to exceed supply in Q4 overall for games. “ – says Colette Kress, chief financial officer at Nvidia

Nvidia’s CFO did not reveal what other components are in short supply. Meanwhile, PC makers and retailers have already complained about the complicated logistics, and even warned that in the coming months they will have to compete for shipping volume with pharmaceutical companies.

Getting additional chips from Samsung is difficult as semiconductor manufacturing facilities are usually booked in advance and it is unclear if the semiconductor manufacturer has enough spare capacity to increase production for Nvidia.
However, the company says it is making every effort to fix the supply of chips for the production of video cards, and predicts that it will be able to rectify the current market situation by January-February 2021.

Source: NVidia