NVIDIA May Scrap RTX 5090 Production To Feed Surging AI Demand

Gamers may soon lose access to NVIDIA's flagship graphics card for consumers. According to a pair of prominent leakers on social media platform X, Team Green is preparing to wind down allocations for the GeForce RTX 5090 to redirect GB202 GPU dies into its far more lucrative AI and workstation-grade enterprise lineups. If true, the pivot underscores just how heavily the ongoing AI boom is cannibalizing high-end desktop hardware supplies.

To be fair, that wasn't really in question, regardless of whether the latest unofficial chatter is true. For one, we've already seen companies pivot in the same manner—most notably, Micron wound down its consumer-facing Crucial brand to focus on the data center, and its share price has skyrocketed since then.

"The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business...

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