cover of episode BREAKING NEWS: EVGA no longer works with Nvidia

BREAKING NEWS: EVGA no longer works with Nvidia

2022/9/17
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EVGA will cease all Video card Manufacturing operations

Existing customers will remain supported by EVGA's warranties

EVGA has withheld inventory to help replace and fulfill cards as needed

EVGA expects to run out of RTX 30 series cards by the end of 22

EVGA is staying in business

EVGA is NOT selling it's business

EVGA is not expanding into new products

Nvidia was notified of this decision in april 2022 (personal note: This would be about when the crypto crash began in earnest)

EVGA finished engineering samples of RTX 40 series cards but will not be selling them

EVGA claims that employees will be reallocated to other divisions.

EVGA's belief is that Nvidia has screwed them over.

Kingpin's future at EVGA is in question.

EVGA CEO is not going to retire yet

EVGA CEO has sited wanting to spend more time with the family as a reason to get out of the GPU market

EVGA CEO says they do not want to partner with AMD or Intel because they didn't want to betray Nvidia

Nvidia has in the past done everything it could to control major parameters regarding thier cards