A story is circulating around that 500,000 boxed GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards were discovered in a shipping container – missing during transit, but that story was BS.
Geeknetic.es first reported the story that, when put on Google Translate, exposes that a subsidiary port warehouse worker from Samsung somewhere in South Korea found a lot of boxes with NVIDIA logos on them. This official noted that the shipment was not on any port record.
The employee himself was trying to buy a GeForce RTX 30 series graphics card and after seeing the hundreds of boxes of NVIDIA products “only increased my frustration at not getting one“
“The RTX 3070, 3080 and 3090 are still hard to find. A shortage favored by strong demand, excessively long production cycles and the global pandemic, which does not make things easier. Good news, however, as a South Korean port operator has just received a missed shipment of 500,000 GeForce RTX 3000 cards!“
As soon as the news set the internet on fire, the author of the original article added: “This is fake news created and published on December 28th in commemoration of the Day of the Holy Innocents in Spain. The content is fake and was created for a humorous satirical purpose. We hope you had fun reading this“
Sigh.