NVIDIA: GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 shortages until 2021

In a Q&A session at this week's GTC event, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang admitted that poor availability of the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090 will not go away anytime soon. Huang predicted demand will continue to outstrip supply until 2021. Interestingly, Huang claims the problem is not related to poor supply but to massive demand. The NVIDIA boss explains yields are great and that they're ramping really, really hard, but that the insane demand is just a "phenomenon":

"I believe that demand will outstrip all of our supply through the year," Huang said. "Remember, we're also going into the double-whammy. The double-whammy is the holiday season. Even before the holiday season, we were doing incredibly well, and then you add on top of it the ‘Ampere factor,’ and then you add on top of that the ‘Ampere holiday factor,’ and we're going to have a really really big Q4 season."

"The 3080 and 3090 have a demand issue, not a supply issue," said Huang. "The demand issue is that it is much much greater than we expected — and we expected really a lot."

"Retailers will tell you they haven't seen a phenomenon like this in over a decade of computing. It hearkens back to the old days of Windows 95 and Pentium when people were just out of their minds to buy this stuff. So this is a phenomenon like we've not seen in a long time, and we just weren't prepared for it."