Nvidia to Delay New Gaming Chip Due to Memory Chip Shortage

Nvidia won’t release a new graphics chip for gamers this year due to a deepening global shortage of memory chips, prompted by the AI boom, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

It would be the first year in three decades that Nvidia hasn’t released a new graphics processing unit for gaming. Nvidia got its start in the early 1990s by designing graphics chips for videogames and consoles before it expanded into high-performance AI computing chips in the early 2010s.