NVIDIA RTX 40-series graphics cards arriving in 2022, says report

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Though the global chip shortage persists, a new report indicates that won’t be stopping NVIDIA from powering forward with its 2022 launch of the GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards. Even with thebest graphics cardsnowhere to be found in 2021, it seems the company is confident its shift from Samsung to TSMC will solve a chunk of the problems when it comes to keeping up with demand.

Aprevious reportindicated that a trifecta of circumstances would lead to consumer semiconductor concerns being eliminated in the latter half of 2022 (or, if not entirely eliminated, then greatly reduced). One of said circumstances was NVIDIA contracting TSMC for its 5nm capabilities, moving away from Samsung’s less capable setup.

Now,DigiTimes' latest scoopclaims that this change will indeed facilitate the anticipated 2022 launch of NVIDIA’s next wave of GPUs (viaWCCF Tech). They will be RTX 40-series cards based on Ada Lovelace architecture.

There’s a lot of time between now and whatever period in mid-to-late 2022 NVIDIA aims to release the cards, so anything can happen. Should the global semiconductor crisis ⁠— whichgreatly affects data-processing technology⁠— persist in the face of evolving coronavirus threats, these reported plans may very well see alterations.

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