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