Nvidia Reportedly Raises GPU Prices by 10-15% (tomshardware.com) 35
An anonymous reader shares a report: A new report claims that Nvidia has recently raised the official prices of nearly all of its products to combat the impact of tariffs and surging manufacturing costs on its business, with gaming graphics cards receiving a 5 to 10% hike while AI GPUs see up to a 15% increase.
As reported by Digitimes Taiwan, Nvidia is facing "multiple crises," including a $5.5 billion hit to its quarterly earnings over export restrictions on AI chips, including a ban on sales of its H20 chips to China.
Digitimes reports that CEO Jensen Huang has been "shuttling back and forth" between the US and China to minimize the impact of tariffs, and that "in order to maintain stable profitability," Nvidia has reportedly recently raised official prices for almost all its products, allowing its partners to increase prices accordingly.
As reported by Digitimes Taiwan, Nvidia is facing "multiple crises," including a $5.5 billion hit to its quarterly earnings over export restrictions on AI chips, including a ban on sales of its H20 chips to China.
Digitimes reports that CEO Jensen Huang has been "shuttling back and forth" between the US and China to minimize the impact of tariffs, and that "in order to maintain stable profitability," Nvidia has reportedly recently raised official prices for almost all its products, allowing its partners to increase prices accordingly.
So still 20% below retail price? (Score:5, Informative)
The retail price of these cards appear to have little to do with their MSRP, so this is one area where the tariff taxes might not be felt by the consumer. I assume scalpers have already found the top of the market that people are willing to pay for the small amount of supply available.
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The selling prices for NVidia GPU's have been about 30% over the original MSRP already for any new 40X0 or 50X0 series cards since the 50X0 series cards launched.
Does this mean that the prices are going up AGAIN, or was that just a warning that the prices are staying there?
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Right, because the suppliers who are buying from Nvidia and paying the higher prices absolutely are just going to eat the delta and leave their inflated prices the same to the end purchaser, reducing their own margins.
You are high on something very potent.
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Right, because the suppliers who are buying from Nvidia and paying the higher prices absolutely are just going to eat the delta and leave their inflated prices the same to the end purchaser, reducing their own margins.
You are high on something very potent.
I'm not some quack job that thinks tariffs are paid by China, and in almost all cases tariff taxes are passed on to consumers, but this is one rare area where I'm not so sure. I think most of these costs will be passed on to scalpers, and those scalpers will have a hard time raising their prices any more than they already have. There are some companies finding ways to get Nvidia cards to consumers at or near MSRP, and the tariffs will directly make these cards more expensive, but I don't think that is what
So the rest of the world... (Score:3)
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You set the price according to what the market will pay.
EU might take exception if a market leader uses their position in an anti-competitive way. So we'll see how this plays out there.
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Either way, an interesting side-effect of tariffs is that companies may choose to sell more inventory in other countries where they can make higher margin per unit. If they choose to do so, that would mean a reduction in U.S. supply, which means that retailers and scalpers could potentially justify even higher p
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You set the price according to what the market will pay.
EU might take exception if a market leader uses their position in an anti-competitive way. So we'll see how this plays out there.
If Nvidia raises prices, but AMD doesn't, is that an abuse of market position by an explicit or near monopolist? Also, I would think that lowering prices to squeeze out a struggling competitor might be viewed as anti-competitive, but why would raising prices be anti-competitive? Shouldn't that help the struggling competitor?
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Yes of course. See, trump was right after all; other countries do pay the tariffs. But of course they aren't paying them to the US government. Nvidia is just padding their profits and enriching their already rich CEO. Cause you know that an obscene amount of profit isn't enough. It never is.
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Tariffs are paid by the consumer. Companies pass along any tariff costs, not add them to their bottom line.
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Because the USA is God's Country, and all the rest of us heathen savages who must pay tribute to appease their angry god.
Thanks a f'n lot, America.
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Maybe with these temporary tariffs, you can sell more stuff to the rest of the world. USA market is huge but it's not the world. If your country is getting hit particularly hard by US tariffs, you may be better off not selling to us.
Time will tell.
Trump (Score:2)
Thank you!! It won't feel like winning if everything was cheap.
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Communists* promised us "You'll own nothing and be happy"
Trump is making it a reality. Sort of. Certain people will own everything. The rest of us will pay without ownership (rent).
* hyperbole - it was stated by a Social Democrat.
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Well, if you think Trump was EVER a Republican, I got some ocean front property in Arizona you may be interested in. Super cheap. I'll give you the Slashdot discount.
MAGA RULES (Score:5, Insightful)
Also, we love the whole riddled with dementia thing you have going on! We hope you enjoy your new 400 million dollar jet, it's totally not a bribe as you plan on keeping it after you get impeached again.
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My Rig Is All AMD Anyway (Score:1)
Fuck Trump. Fuck Intel. And especially Fuck Nvidia.
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Even if Trump stops the pointless trade war now (Score:1, Insightful)
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The US economy is stronger than Donald fucking Trump.
Yes, the US will recover just fine, and will continue to be both the largest economy on the planet, and the largest consumer market on the planet. The world will continue being our factory.
Everyone will take the steps necessary to protect themselves from the fuckery while they must, but as soon as the need is gone, that real power behind all Western nations and politics- businesses- will want that money to start
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OK, Pollynna.
It's not stronger than the 77 million idiots (Score:1)
If I had one wish to the Almighty I would ask for everyone on the planet to be given an extra 100 IQ points and for their kids to keep those IQ points. This thing where people cannot locate and process legitimate and real information is going to doom us all.
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Obviously, we have a problem with political intelligence in this country.
What's really bizarre, is I don't think the official education metrics really explain the stupidity in voting.
But the fact is, this dumb fucker isn't going to somehow sink the most valuable ship in the world. The US is going to be just fine.
The world may become a better place, or go straight to shit, though. We'll see.
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-Forest and tree and all that.
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The United States is 10% manufacturing, nearly $3T/yr, 13 million people employed, we make more energy than we use and grow more food than we eat. What don't we make here or make enough of that we should?
Do note I am not saying that answer is nothing, I can think of quite a few things but you have to justify each of those and explain how a tariff helps it.
Also the premise that autarky is simply not possible, like at all must be accepted or we are just in different realities.
Everything you said is wrong (Score:2)
Next we took the national debt and our military strength and used that to artificially prop up the dollar making it the world's reserve currency.
This means an American dollar can buy a lot more imports than it really should be able to.
This means we get to bring in trillions of dollars worth of consumer goods and raw materials and heavy machinery for a fraction of the price and use those goods to
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The long term multi-decade damage of moving all manufacturing outside the country while everyone buys trinkets for pennies from China can never be undone.
Which is exactly why it is pointless for someone to even try. Leave the factories in China, you won't change the situation now, you're just damaging yourself even more trying. And damaging everybody else as well.
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If we can bring automated factories to America, that would be a boon for us since it would weaken China. A weakened China is definitely a good thing for USA.
GPU prices have been going up for a while (Score:3)