techspot AMD restraining supply to raise prices

[UltraMega]

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In a Tuesday evening investors call, AMD CEO Lisa Su tried to calm investor anxiety by pointing out that the company has been, and will continue to, undership GPUs to "balance supply and demand." Of course, that's just another way of saying, "we're going to keep prices inflated by lowering our output."

 

"We undershipped in Q3, we undershipped in Q4," Su told investors. "We will undership, to a lesser extent, in Q1 [sic]."

 

Many hardware companies got used to the high demand caused by the pandemic and the crypto boom. Now that both driving factors are ebbing, companies are finding themselves with a surplus of inventory and are trying to tip the scale to keep their numbers up for investors.

AMD admits to restraining chip supply to keep higher CPU and GPU prices

WWW.TECHSPOT.COM

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If you haven't noticed, the tech industry is suffering a significant contraction. Executives are panicking as they try to...

 

 

AMD must be doing better than I thought if they can afford to do stuff like this.

 

[pio]

[Andrew]

What? A tech company creating artificial scarcity on hardware to increase the price of said hardware? That is insane and definitely hasn't happened before with hard drives in 2011 that made hard drives suddenly significantly more expensive than they should have been for several years.

[Diffident]

AMD isn't all rainbows and unicorns like some people make them out to be.

[Sir Beregond]

Oh look, more AMD pulling Nvidia moves. 

[pio]

1 hour ago, Andrew said:

What? A tech company creating artificial scarcity on hardware to increase the price of said hardware? That is insane and definitely hasn't happened before with hard drives in 2011 that made hard drives suddenly significantly more expensive than they should have been for several years.

Absolutely, 100%.  "Its because of flooding hurr durr".  Yeah right WD, you weren't the only plant, and it was for a few days.  Doesn't excuse years worth of inflated pricing.

 

These tactics absolutely have been used for many many years.  Glad I'm not the only one catching that.

Edited February 2, 2023 by pioneerisloud

[Sir Beregond]

15 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

Absolutely, 100%.  "Its because of flooding hurr durr".  Yeah right WD, you weren't the only plant, and it was for a few days.  Doesn't excuse years worth of inflated pricing.

 

These tactics absolutely have been used for many many years.  Glad I'm not the only one catching that.

Off topic for a second, but man this was classic back in the day. Thanks for reminding me of this gem. "They only gave me friend 45nm, while I have 65nm!" 

 

[bonami2]

1 hour ago, pioneerisloud said:

Absolutely, 100%.  "Its because of flooding hurr durr".  Yeah right WD, you weren't the only plant, and it was for a few days.  Doesn't excuse years worth of inflated pricing.

 

These tactics absolutely have been used for many many years.  Glad I'm not the only one catching that.

They always have excuse. Meanwhile they have suicide NET at Foxconn and have no supply issue. 

 

Foxconn suicides - Wikipedia

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Edited February 3, 2023 by bonami2

[pio]

5 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Off topic for a second, but man this was classic back in the day. Thanks for reminding me of this gem. "They only gave me friend 45nm, while I have 65nm!" 

 

Stay tuned for next month's quote.  Am taking suggestions via PM. 

[Huzzug]

27 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

Stay tuned for next month's quote.  Am taking suggestions via PM. 

Nothing about the guy who taped out a marine with his rear naked choke hold? 

[schuck6566]

lol,and Intel, even though they didn't make their estimated earnings, are lowering the price on the ARC 750 GPU's . SOMEBODY plans on selling some video cards.....

[SamsTechStuff]

9 hours ago, UltraMega said:

AMD admits to restraining chip supply to keep higher CPU and GPU prices

WWW.TECHSPOT.COM

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If you haven't noticed, the tech industry is suffering a significant contraction. Executives are panicking as they try to...

 

 

AMD must be doing better than I thought if they can afford to do stuff like this.

 

 

 

Business as usual but after the GPU-pocolypse, general compute component limited availability, and monetery inflation, it feels worse to know companies are actively trying to extend the life of temporarily heightened selling prices. Long live the used market!

[mouacyk]

Oh boy, those 7800X3D are going to trickle out and make scalpers millions...