A lot of rumours going around right now - with claims that Nvidia sold $175 million of graphics cards to miners which could in part explain the sample shortage. However, Leo takes a look at the story and shares his thoughts after doing some research. 00:00 Video start 00:13 Nvidia - sold $175 million of GPU’s to miners? 01:38 Nvidia’s Financials 01:47 Kitguru speaks to Nvidia 02:10 Might the story be true? 03:06 Speculative maths - Nvidia figures 05:14 Nvidia screwing gamers? 06:18 The thing is … Leo Says 56 – Did Nvidia sell $175 million of GPUs to miners? There are multiple reports that Nvidia may have sold US$175 million of GPUs to miners, and that has hurt supplies for gamers. https://www.thefpsreview.com/2020/11/24/nvidia-reportedly-sold-175-million-worth-of-ampere-gpus-to-miners https://news.bitcoin.com/nvidia-posts-record-q3-earnings-sales-of-gpus-to-crypto-miners-reach-175-million https://www.barrons.com/articles/how-cryptocurrency-miners-boosted-nvidias-earnings-51605822391?mod=hp_INTERESTS_technology&refsec=hp_INTERESTS_technology The root of the story is a report that Mitch Steves, an analyst for RBC Capital Markets had predicted that Nvidia would sell US$150 million of GPUs to miners but instead sold US$175 million. The problem is that I cannot find that note by Mitch Steves KitGuru asked Nvidia for a comment on the Barron's story and were told ‘I haven't got any comment for you just yet… bear in mind it's Thanksgiving weekend so probably will have to wait until Monday on this.’ which is fair enough. Might this story be true? Sure thing. Crypto is booming and there is certainly demand. https://crypto.com/price You have to balance the return from the crypto along with the cost of the hardware. We understand miners are mainly based in China, Poland, Russia and the Baltic. One driving force for new mining hardware is given as the upcoming network upgrade of the Ethereum blockchain which is scheduled to take place sometime in December which demands that miners switch over to more efficient mining hardware with a minimum 8GB of memory. RTX 3080 seems ideal so the idea that Nvidia might supply kits of parts to lower tier Chinese graphics companies makes perfect sense. If we guess a kit of GPU and memory costs UDS$350 then USD$175 million amounts to 500,000 kits of GA102. Adjust the price to USD$500 and you’re looking at 350,000 RTX 3080. Surely those numbers would mean that Scan, Ebuyer, Overclockers and Amazon would each receive thousands more high end graphics card here in the UK which would clearly be significant for gamers. It is not clear whether Nvidia would book Mining sales under Gaming or some other category. Nvidia Q3 2021 results https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kSdbDVgJ1U

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