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Comment by KptMarchewa | Hacker News Reader

>I hope they ramp up production

Every high-performance CPU released lately uses TSMC for manufacturing, which can't keep up with demand.

See Playstation 5/Xbox shortages, Ryzen and Radeon shortages. I think only Apple was able to secure enough manufacturing.

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Would Nvidia's shortages also fall in this bucket?

Nvidia's RTX 3000 line is manufactured by Samsung, not TSMC.

We know more about Nvidia shortage on 3000 series: Samsung wafer, substrates and components (maybe the GDDR6X memory chip which only Micron can make).

[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/275530/nvidia-rtx-30-series-shor...

All rumors about low supply 3000 series are debunked by looking at their quarterly revenue results and the Steam ranking that was released yesterday. (See my other reply.)

Nvidia used samsung. Rumor has it that their shortage is because they sold their cards directly to cryptominers.

That is stuff angry gamer kids make up to find a reason to be mad. The reality is that manufacturing is generally slowed due to covid, and demand is generally high due to covid, and nobody can keep up.

I believe this was debunked. The sales to cryptominers only represents a few percents of the total.

Is mining on GPUs still something people do? Or can be done anywhere near profitable? I got the impression with ASICs that game was up.

It's for ASIC resistant currencies I believe

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