The price of graphics cards has been a lot of time sensitive over the past year, with a tragic combination of material shortages and a high demand causing massive inflation.

With China’s repression on encryption operations causing ex-mining GPUs flooding the market, it was expected that we could finally start seeing the prices of the new material drop to something more affordable, but it seems that recent market analysis suggests that we are not out of the wood again.

Mydriver, a website of Chinese language technology, indicates that the provision of graphics cards in the NVIDIA RTX 30 series will decrease by 30% compared to August, with the RTX 3060 suffering from a 50% reduction in expected availability. , and prices increase again for roughly each GPU on the market – even including older materials such as NVIDIA GTX 1050 TI.

The sorry state of silicon

Videocardz has converted price hikes from different NVIDIA graphics cards to the Yuan request to USD in its own reports and notes that the GPU AMD stock seems to be less affected by shortages despite inflated prices.

We reported last week that the TSMC (Semiconductor Taiwan Manufacturing Company) seeks to increase the 20% prices to compensate for the huge peak of flea demand, but there was no guarantee that manufacturers would transmit these Costs for consumers.

We can not be certain that the price increases we see are reflecting increased manufacturing costs and various other reasons such as the temporary closure of GPU assembly lines due to new COVID epidemics have also been cited as a cause. Material shortages, but knowing why the GPUs are more expensive becoming little comfort to consumers who patiently await that grotesque inflation has dropped and the stock is more abundant to reduce scalping.