Nvidia’s next generation Geforce is delayed due to excess inventory by Pascal

In 2017, there was an acute shortage of graphics cards with a direct consequence that prices soared. The reason is spelled cryptocurrencies, where alternatives to the immensely popular Bitcoin had a wide impact. To meet demand, AMD and Nvidia increased the production rate of graphics circuits.

Now the crypto wave has begun to subside, which completely sonic has made an impact on sales of graphics cards. It is said that Nvidia has overestimated demand and thus has large stocks of graphics circuits based on today’s architecture Pascal, which is the basis for the Geforce GTX 1000 series. Reportedly, this is the reason why the launch of a new generation from Nvidia is delayed.

A report on Seeking Alpha claims that one of the major OEMs in Taiwan has sent back 300,000 graphics chips to Nvidia. At the same time, the domestic industry magazine Digitimes reports that graphics card manufacturers such as Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and TUL are sitting on large volumes as a result of sharply reduced demand.

The architecture Pascal recently turned two years old and throughout the year there has been speculation about when the next generation from Nvidia will be released, where each new report constantly talks about later launch windows. That a launch is delayed was confirmed by none other than Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang in connection with Computex 2018.

Shortly before Huang’s statement, Nvidia had also announced that they would talk about the next generation of graphics cards on Hot Chips 30, but later removed that part from the schedule for the industry conference.

It has previously been seen as a given that Nvidia will release the next generation this summer, but now there are more and more indications that it will be in the autumn. Whether this is true and whether the architecture is called Volta, Turing or Ampere, and whether the product family’s official name will be the Geforce GTX 1100 or GTX 2000 series, are questions that still remain unanswered.