EVGA should have hopped over to team BLUE or team RED. AKA Intel or AMD. Its easy to switch brands. This "retooling" excuse is b/s. The pick-a-part machines that place components are programmable. You just program in the new cards and it does the work.
IF Kingpin really is looking to go somewhere, I would love to see him skip out on Nvidia entirely and move to a brand that makes either Intel or AMD graphics cards. Honestly him going with Intel would be great simply to help get Intel more mainstream. But at the same time it would also be awesome to see him end up over at Sapphire with team red.
EVGA will be a dead company in a few years. Its my future prediction. I don't care if PSU's have higher profit margins. $70-100 dollar PSU with high margins? you have to remember the MAJORITY of gamers are not buying high end power supplies that cost $200-300. We are the 1% of computing. The majority of gamers are buying budget oriented products. So how much profit could there be on a 70-100 dollar PSU? Assuming it cost about $30 to make a PSU, that means margins are 40-70 bucks. That isn't huge. Even if you sell thousands, its not a lot. This idea that AIB's don't profit from GPU sales is insane. Hate to burst the bubble. Its as bad as the claim that microcenter doesn't profit from selling gpu's and cpu's.... its pure B/S. End of the day, Nvidia is making money, AIB's make money, and thus they continue to make GPU's. NO BUSINESS would continue to make GPU's if they could not profit from it.... EVGA is the ONLY one to drop out of making GPU's. There is no way other brands simply kept going "for ****s and giggles even though they don't profit." Insane lies people tell themselves. EVGA dropping GPU division is more than "nvidia bad" and "nvidia screwing us over profits wise" and "not telling us about upcoming products until its too late." Because if these were all true, everyone would have dropped Nvidia....
common sense dictates reality. evga has other things going on not spoken about, and the supposed reasons for stopping making gpu's is not the real reason. the company is literally being gutted. on the flip side, there is the whole "china vs taiwan" issue and the fact that EVGA is technically an american business. YES they have a taiwan location but headquarters is in california.... this could be some of the real reason why the company is being gutted. we might see them eventually closing the taiwan office and building an production facility here in the US (or using preexisting US manufacturing plants) and simply skipped out one generation to eventually bring manufacturing back to the US. huge maybe, but makes more sense to me. if china ends up taking taiwan, even if the US trys to fight back, products will be halted to a standstill in terms of shipping and maybe even production. which would harm evga anyway (and other brands with taiwan locations). so who knows. end of the day, evga is being gutted for some reason. and we don't have the actual reason.