There have been many things that this pandemic saga that started in late 2019 on China and the rest of the world by Spring 2020 and the materialist hardship is the semiconductor shortage as an effect of supply chain disrupted as workforce is not a 100% anywhere in the world.

Hence, GPUs in particular have been scarce for most of 2020 and 2021.

Since a few weeks ago, there have been forecasts from people with sources at the supply chain that the whole semiconductors shortage is NOWHERE NEAR TO END at least for 2022, the demand for GPU to be used on blockchains has decreased and hence, have improved the availability in general.

With this it has been foreseen that GPU prices will be in best scenario steady as MSRP (Most Suggested Retail Price) by May 2022.

While we are eager to see more data that suggest this, a surprising note from Asus really brought up my smile this morning as I am planning to construct my first PC IN DECADES.

Asus confirmed that they will be cutting 25% of their prices as the US Trade Office will be lifting some of the Tariff that the Trump Administration applied on China as part of the commerce pissing contest that it was best known for, that affected many components for making electronics, PCs and CPUs and GPUs included.

Yes, semiconductors shortage, scalpers (which I personally believe should be illegal regardless of capitalism itself justify it) and Trump’s tariff which instead of affecting China affected US CONSUMERS, where the ingredient of low availability and GTFO prices.

Unfortunately, the tariff is not being lifted permanently as the US Trade Office has confirmed that it is only to battle the rise of inflation that unexpectedly went up at a fast pace this year and will be restored by the end of the year.

But anyways, I guess that summer should be an interesting time for those not minding the announcements from new generations of GPUs by AMD and Nvidia slated for the second half of this year and probably repeating the cycle that started in 2020 (maybe?).