And indeed, there was one, or rather 500,000! We learned this Monday, December 28, 2020 that Choi Min-Sik, a port employee in South Korea, has unearthed a stray cargo of 500,000 GeForce RTX 3000 in a container. The employee in question had spotted boxes stamped Nvidia in a container absent from the registers.
His curiosity aroused, the employee (himself a player and waiting for an RTX 3080) decides to open a box. To his surprise, the boxes were full of RTX 3080 ! Neither one nor two, Choi warns his superiors of his discovery. After investigation, it turns out that these 500,000 Nvidia graphics cards were placed in this container. without proper documentation, after their manufacture in August by Samsung.
Due to an administrative error, the cards were not recorded in the shipping company delivery register. Fact, the container has disappeared from radar, him and his cargo. Following this discovery, Nvidia confessed to having lost these cards several months ago, without being able to get their hands on them.