[busymom0]

Could this have been the reason for chip shortage?

[fennecfoxen]

Do you think 6,080 GPUs — admittedly very large ones — are sufficient to explain the chip shortage?

[zydex]

Nvidia and AMD shipped 12.7m cards collectively in 2021, I don't know what the breakdown is on consumer vs corporate but I find it hard to believe this had any impact.

Correction: terafo pointed out they shipped 12.7m cards in Q3 2021 alone.

[terafo]

It was not 12.7 million in 2021. It was 12.7 million in Q3 2021.

[zydex]

Where did you see that? This was my source:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/gpu-shipments-increa...

"Nvidia and AMD shipped 12.7 million cards in 2021"

Please correct me if I'm misreading or clearly missing something.

[terafo]

If you look at the source article it is clearly stated.

>Year over year, total AIB shipments increased by 25.7% this quarter compared to last year at 12.7 million units, and up quarter-to-quarter from 11.47 million units in Q2’21.

[zydex]

Understood, thank you for clarifying.

[terafo]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30064173

[hmate9]

No, this is way too small in scale vs the global demand.