News is circulating that 500,000 GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards were lost in transit and found in an unlabeled shipping container in South Korea. There even seems to be a quote from Nvidia explaining the situation to shareholders on this matter. The only problem is that nothing really happened. [because] suddenly finding 500,000 Ampere GPUs could have alleviated some of the frustration associated with the short supply (relative to demand). More than three months after the GeForce RTX 3080, the first consumer Ampere part to be released to retailers, it remains difficult to find stock at first-party retailers. The same is true for the cards that followed (GeForce RTX 3090, 3070, and 3060 Ti, in that order).

The first reports of the allegedly missing GPUs date back to Geeknetic.es, where a Google translation of Geeknetic.es notes that an employee at the port warehouse of a Samsung subsidiary in Korea noticed that a pile of boxes stamped with the Nvidia logo was not listed in any port records He wrote that he noticed. [The employee was trying to buy a GeForce RTX 30 series graphics card, to no avail. [I imagine Nvidia would be very energetic in tracking down the missing cards if such a thing were to happen.

However, after the news began to spread, the author of the article wrote: "This is fake news created and published on December 28 in celebration of the Spanish Holy Innocents' Day. Its content is false and was created for the purpose of satirical humor. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Apparently, December 28 in Spain is similar to April Fool's Day, when false news is usually posted with a humorous slant.

Nevertheless, if you work in a port warehouse, check to see if there are any unmarked shipping containers with boxes of Ryzen 5000 series CPUs for us DIY system builders.