NVIDIA management representatives at the last quarterly reporting event tried to emphasize that the current difficulties in selling finished products in the gaming segment are temporary and the demand for gaming solutions remains fundamentally high.The head of the company even said that by the end of the year most of the difficulties should be solved, and in the new year NVIDIA will enter with a new gaming architecture.Image source: NVIDIAAfter his words Jensen Huang has promised to tell more details about this architecture at the GTC, which will start on 20th of September.The speech of the CEO and CFO of NVIDIA at the last event and then interspersed with hints of the approach of the announcement of a new generation of graphics cards.Colette Kress even literally said that gaming innovations are \"just around the corner\", and the company's founder added that not only will the new generation of calculation gas pedals with the Hopper architecture, but also the new generation of \"computer graphics cards\" will soon enter the market.Analyzing the situation with surplus gaming products, Jensen Huang expressed the hope that a couple of quarters to solve most of the problems, and by the end of this year NVIDIA \"will be in good shape\".He also explained that in the new year the company will enter with a new gaming architecture, about which he expects to tell the audience next month.As rightly noted the founder of the company, in the past and current quarters NVIDIA will have to reduce the supply of its products to partners, as well as to carry out price adjustments to quickly free up inventory, but at retail sales of gaming graphics cards, even in such circumstances will be 70% higher than before the pandemic.This indicates a preservation of high demand in the gaming segment in the medium term.Ampere head of the company believes the most successful architecture of graphics processors ever created by NVIDIA.The new generation of gaming graphics, he said, will be located at a level above the existing one.Should this be taken as a hint at a higher price level, it is difficult to say unequivocally, because for the implementation of Ampere stock prices for the products of the current generation will have to decrease.According to Jensen Huang, the average selling price of gaming video cards in the absence of a significant influence of the cryptocurrency factor will also decrease.He believes that the average price of graphics cards should be comparable to the price of a gaming console, now it is around $ 500 or $ 599.CFO Colette Kress, in turn, told about the average sales revenue from NVIDIA video cards in retail channels.Although the company will have to reduce their shipments, their partners will still be able to sell $5 billion worth of gaming graphics cards during the second and third quarters of this year.NVIDIA's gaming revenue in the second quarter barely exceeded $2 billion, and in the third quarter it will still decrease in sequential comparison.The imbalance between NVIDIA's deliveries and partners' revenues from video card sales is inevitable given the stock overstocking.
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