Graphics card manufacturers are afraid of hard disk out of stock

In 6 weeks we will usher in 2012. In early 2012, we hope to see that the shortage of hard disks caused by the flooding in Thailand has been eased. The new 28nm graphics chip was released and the Android 4.0 products were launched in volume.

However, there are good and bad. At present, graphics card manufacturers have been concerned about the hard disk shortage caused by the floods in Thailand, which will have an impact on the graphics card business. Originally, graphics card manufacturers were very excited about the launch of popular games such as Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, and Batman: The City of Agam. They believe that more game users will upgrade their graphics cards.

However, now that not only the 28nm graphics chip has been postponed until next year, the pace of user upgrades has slowed down. To make matters worse, the flooding in Thailand caused hard drive prices to skyrocket. This made users who upgrade both graphics cards and hard drives stalemate. They are all prepared to wait until the hard disk prices drop in the first half of next year, and then upgrade. One can buy new 28nm graphics cards. Hard drive prices have already dropped to levels before the floods in Thailand.

NVIDIA stated at the third quarter financial conference that the graphics and graphics chip business will not be affected by floods in Thailand, but this is only for the OEM market, because OEMs often buy hard drives in advance to prevent shortages and achieve better results. price.

However, the retail/upgrade market is quite another matter. Many consumers have been forced to postpone their upgrades because of hard drive prices. Of course, the graphics card market will be more or less affected by this.

Nowadays, the graphics card manufacturers only hope that the SSD hard drives will be greatly reduced in price and popularity, because the upgrade users may consider the SSD hard drives with improved cost performance due to the soaring prices of mechanical hard drives.