For years, EVGA has been a household name in the PC component market, but on September 16th, EVGA announced they will not be making the next-generation of Nvidia graphic cards and are no longer working with Nvidia in any capacity. To take things one step further, EVGA also announced they are getting out of the graphics card (GPU) market all together and do not currently have plans to produce AMD or Intel cards.
The announcement to split ways with Nvidia came during interviews with EVGA’s CEO Andrew Han on YouTube channels JayZTwoCents and GamersNexus when Han discussed his frustrations with Nvidia as a partner, “We are not going to be on [Nvidia CEO] Jensen [Huang]’s lap on stage, so I don’t want people to speculate what’s going on,” GamersNexus Steve Burke quotes Han as saying, “EVGA has decided not to carry the next gen.” According to website Tom’s Hardware, the videos of the interview were embargoed to which they believe there may be more to the story behind this split with rumors of Nvidia holding back important information, such as suggested retail pricing and availability.
With this decision, EVGA’s overall production of components takes a major hit. In GamersNexus’ video, Han states he would like to take care of his employees, but it is unclear what that means or what his employees may need to do. Han stated that he intends EVGA to stay in business and won’t lay off any of its employees. For Nvidia, they have lost a major supplier of their GPUs, as EVGA made up 40% of their North American market sales.
EVGA would go on to post on their official message board “EVGA is committed to our customers and will continue to offer sales and support on the current lineup. Also, EVGA would like to say thank you to our great community for the many years of support and enthusiasm for EVGA graphics cards.”
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