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Last ditch effort to remain relevant before fading into obscurity, and finally shuttering their doors? Just a guess.
Possible, perhaps an attempt not to look like they come groveling back, but rather returning as heroes.or planting the seeds for a potential comeback
Its interesting to see
Understood, but you may be missing the forest here. Companies are loathe to show their interiors while they're still in the fight, out of competitive concerns.
Indeed, I've been buying EVGA cards since my 6800 GT (2005) right up to the 3080 FTW Ultra I had last year.
They didn't give up on us, they just got tired of Nvidia's BS.
They're incapable of making AMD cards?
Probably not much better on AMD side I would imagine.
Who says it's any better to be an AMD AIB manufacturer? Probably worse due to tiny sales compared to Nvidia.
Historic documentation of behind the scenes, which is both interesting and relevant to all modern technology.
Of course they are not going to show you the trade secrets of a still operating division. The exact reason they are comfortable showing behind the scenes is because they are shutting down. I thought that would be obvious to everyone.
All well and good, but they have absolutely no reason to show this at all except to stay fresh in people's minds. They know full well that their GPU side of the business was THE business. And like they say, there's a sucker born every minute.
I'm surprised, this is not rocket science.
You wouldn't expect MSI or another big brand to still be in the news, if they left GPU sales??
Yeah and if I recall correctly, their other products, while much smaller in sales compared to their cards, were more profitable.
Maybe? Maybe not? From what I gather AiBs get blank circuit boards (or the design for them) the actual GPU, basically just populate it with off the shelf components, ram, VRMs, caps, etc, and a cooling solution (that very well may already have some reference design so there's no R&D needed unless going exotic). Part of me thinks that it wouldn't be any real cost difference than say having the 4070ti come out after pumping out 4080s and 4090s.
They have shown the exact opposite, that their GPU division was responsible only for a fraction of their profits despite being significant in revenue. That's why they pulled the plug, it was dead weight, a liability rather than an asset.
Well, you say that but then go on and cite all the wrong reasons.
The question was why EVGA would show it. Surely you do not suggest that they care about tech jebus's patreon income.
That's even more off base than your first suggestion. If they are relying on a video coming out months after it was recorded to help the morale of the employees, then EVGA is dead already. Wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes as a business if they need a 3rd party youtuber to boost their internal morale.
Isn't that the purpose of every factory tour given by companies, to raise awareness about their products? At least you are not wrong here, but this is hardly unique to their situation.
Well, you say that but then go and cite all the wrong reasons.
The question was not why EVGA would show it. Go read the question once more, carefully this time. Since it did not specify a "who" I provided answers for all of the revelant parties, including EVGA and the person you call a "tech jebus."
This is even more off base than your first retort. Businesses offer "behind the scenes" tours all the time to generate buzz internally and externally. I've done perhaps a dozen myself--how many have you done, or perhaps you don't understand much about businesses?
Oh, you're one of those people who think there are "GPU engineers" and "PSU engineers" and "motherboard engineers" and never do any of these skill sets actually intersect in the slightest. Nice. Got it.
Yes that is one of the main purposes of any factory tour. I'm glad you were able to at least recognize this. Now please respond to the person I was originally quoting and ask that person why he's so surprised that a company would give a factory tour to raise awareness for their products.
Guessing you have never heard of a loss leader? EVGA just buried their loss leader, and as such will slowly but surely proceed to be forgotten; unless they do something to stay in the public eye, like said video.
Well stated, as you tend to do. At first I was convinced the behavior of the EVGA CEO was not that of a man that wanted to simply fade. Because that doesn't need fanfare - a one-page on the Corp website is all. I thought maybe he wanted to just skip the suppressed, post-mining gpu market and re-enter if market changed later.
They are known for their Dark motherboards and PSUs
