Jensen Huang Reportedly Described an Avalanche of Excess Wafers and Memory

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A new report says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang acknowledged his company was confronting a flood of surplus wafers and memory chips. The account reportedly sheds light on the broader GPU and RAM supply crisis affecting the chip industry. The details come from a respawnfirst.com article that was shared and discussed on Hacker News. The source material provided is limited, so the specifics of the surplus and its timing are not fully detailed here. The story has drawn modest attention so far, with a small number of points and comments.

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