Unless demand has collapsed so hard that retailers can’t even move whats been sitting in their warehouses for 6 months.
Then… it could be more complicated.
Yeah, prices will go up if they have to actually order new GPUs through tariffs…
But, if they just… think demand has collapsed significantly… they just won’t order anything very expensive they don’t think they can sell, and then you get a whole bunch of nonsense in secondary, second hand market… kinda like whats going on with used cars in the US right now.
Oh, are you a used car dealer? You get to buy a 120k truck that has been sitting on a dealers lot for so long that its been repo’d from the dealership… you can get that at auction for 20-30k.
But god knows what that second dealer is gonna try and charge for it.
GPU prices are a lagging indicator. They’ll be going back up soon as well.
Unless demand has collapsed so hard that retailers can’t even move whats been sitting in their warehouses for 6 months.
Then… it could be more complicated.
Yeah, prices will go up if they have to actually order new GPUs through tariffs…
But, if they just… think demand has collapsed significantly… they just won’t order anything very expensive they don’t think they can sell, and then you get a whole bunch of nonsense in secondary, second hand market… kinda like whats going on with used cars in the US right now.
Oh, are you a used car dealer? You get to buy a 120k truck that has been sitting on a dealers lot for so long that its been repo’d from the dealership… you can get that at auction for 20-30k.
But god knows what that second dealer is gonna try and charge for it.