Nvidia Spending Billions to Secure Components For 4000 Series

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Since the launch of the current generation of graphics cards, it's been a bit of a disappointment with the shortages resulting from the pandemic, and the subsequent hiked prices on sites like eBay. For the past year or so, it's been difficult for anyone to get hold of a new Nvidia or AMD product, and with team red recently announcing the RDNA 3, the next era of the graphics technology is fast approaching. In an effort to combat the potential issues down the line, it seems as though team green is eager to make sure it can make its next range of cards.

In a recent report from Hardware Times, Nvidia has spent around $9 billion dollars in a bid to secure 5nm chips from TSMC for the company's upcoming 4000 series. Compare this to last year, during the same quarter, in which Jensen Huang and co spent $2.54 billion. With everything that's been going on with this generation, and the difficulty with which it's been to produce and sell GPUs, it's not too surprising that the tech giant is taking steps to ensure it has a better chance of meeting supply with demand once the next generation kicks in.

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Late last year, it was rumored that the Nvidia 4000 series could be out in the middle of this year. However, the report goes on to say that it's looking more like Lovelace will be available September time, so that's more towards the latter parts of Q3. The question will be whether or not tech companies, graphics card or otherwise, will be able to make amends as, while the deficit continues to rage on, there is the possibility that things may start to improve over the coming months, though no one can be 100% certain.

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