The Linus tech video posted earlier explained that they're apparently opening 2 factories in the US, but that's a plan for the future, as in 2022-2023 future, and that's just the first step of the chain, after that you still need all the other steps(making the PCBs, soldering the chips on them, QA and so on), and a lot of these are also bottlenecked currently, so increasing production is something that'll take several years because it's not even just the chips.
So basically all this shit is a moot point then, is it not? If there is bottlenecks in manufacturing it really does not matter who orders what until they solve the bottlenecks. THERE WILL BE BOTTLENECKS. lol
Chip orders are not going away, they are just growing.
Well it's because it's bottlenecked that it matters? If Nintendo has contracts with Nvidia for them to provide x chips for their new Switch Pro, Nvidia can't just order more chips, they're already buying all they can, so those chips are coming out of the ones they'd use for more GFXs. It's why AMD has fuck all for GFXs either, because all their chips are going into making consoles stuff. I mean if you're saying it's all fucked regardless sure, but it certainly won't help finding 3080s if they're taking 20 or 30% or whatever number from their total allocated chips and putting them into Switch consoles instead.
With that said, the Switch new specs are purely speculation atm, and I was reading that Nvidia doesn't actually have something to put in the theorical new Switch Pro so it's unclear exactly what they're doing and how.
Oh and yeah it's a very fucked up way to organize stuff, a lot of industries are in this situation, where it's basically one big company in China making 90+% of the entire world supply of certain things, and if for some reason that shit burns to the ground, then it just completely fucks up the entire supply chain. Pharmaceutical supplies is definitely super fucked that way.
