Not Just Mining! This is the reason why VGA is now expensive and rare

GAMEFINITY.ID, Salatiga – The price of VGA or GPU which is increasingly skyrocketing makes gamers feel annoyed and angry. The hope of gamers to build their dream PC must be held back by the soaring price of VGA now.

Not only high-end VGA, even the prices of mid-range and lower-end GPUs such as the GTX 1050 and RTX 2060 are also affected by the VGA crisis that is currently hitting. This is further exacerbated by the trend cryptocurrency which is getting busier in 2021.

Because of this, many gamers accuse the miners or cryptocurrency miners of being the culprit for the VGA crisis. The miners who bought up all the VGA made stock scarce and increasingly expensive.

But actually the cause of the VGA crisis in 2021 is not only miners and the COVID-19 pandemic. There are so many factors that affect the price and stock of VGA available. Then besides miners, what are the factors that affect the VGA crisis? This is the reason.

Getting to Know the TSMC Crisis

Do you know, guys? GPU manufacturers like AMD and NVidia don’t make their own GPU chips? In making GPU chips and processors, they asked a company called TSMC to manufacture the chips they need on the GPU.

TSMC or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is a semiconductor manufacturer that produces various chips and processors for hardware companies such as AMD, Apple, NVidia, Mediatek, and others.

So, in 2021, TSMC is in crisis where they find it difficult to meet the demand for chips from various companies. This is because now Taiwan is experiencing severe drought, so that the supply of clean water for the production of chips and processors is less and hampers production.

Other than that, political divisions between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan also affect the condition of TSMC. Many workers in TSMC who are citizens of the People’s Republic of China find it difficult to enter and leave their countries to work at TSMC.

Due to the increasingly grim situation, the CEO of TSMC revealed that TSMC chip crisis will continue throughout the year 2022. So most likely the price of VGA will not go down in 2021.

Rampant VGA Scalper

When NVidia released a new batch of RTX Series, gamers were surprised by the VGA that sold out very quickly. Investigate a calibaration, it turns out that the culprit for the loss of the VGA is the rampant scalpers.

For those of you who don’t know what a scalper is, VGA Scalper are people who buy VGA for re-sell with much higher price from the market price.

This naughty scalper’s actions made it difficult for official distributors to get VGA stock so that customers were forced to buy the scalpers’ VGA.

Interrupted International Shipping

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, international shipping experience disturbance in the delivery of goods between countries and continents.

Based on reports from NYTimes and Gizmodo, the delivery of goods between countries by sea is currently experiencing disturbances due to the port is difficult to load goods. Lack of workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic and booming E-Commerce shipping is the biggest reason why imported goods are difficult to enter the port.

Therefore, the shipping service of goods by sea is now set a higher price than usual to cover losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, the increase in shipping prices also affects the increase in the price of the existing VGA.

Those were the various factors that influenced the scarcity and skyrocketing price of VGA or GPU. As gamers we certainly continue to hope that this VGA crisis will end so that we can get the VGA we want easily and at a normal price.