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That is an incorrect statement. Ultimately its better for them to sell to gamers then cryptominers. Cause what you are ignoring is that both companies make deals with both game makers and console makers, selling to crypto miners makes those deals less valuable. If they are only selling to crypto miners then there is no reason for gamers to use special tech or for console makers to not try and make their own graphics chips.
You seem to be under the impression I believe Nvidia/AMD and the manufacturers who actually build the cards are refocusing solely on crypto. They obviously aren't, and in the long term it would absolutely be stupid.
Except there are those nice aaa games coming out that are using the new tech card makers have included and a lot of gamers who can't get the cards to use said tech which could lead the tech to just not be used anymore or because of less user ability to get the cards needed, someone else would have time to come up with something and sell it better to game makers. Not to mention there isn't really a good way to prevent crypto miners from getting cards. Nvidia tried making tech that would throttle cards down for mining but its hard to do that in a way that someone couldn't hack around.
Maybe, but that'd take years and buttloads of money in r&d, since, again, everyone is way, way behind save for maybe Intel. If the current situation continues for several more years there'd be a chance a big player would make that kind of investment. But that doesn't seem a plausible outcome, since neither the crypto boom or silicon shortage are likely to last that long.
Yes, that is true, and Nvidia without any doubt knows this. Which is why that attempt always struck me as just something they did to placate their gamer customer base, not any serious action to curtail mining. Of course, then they accidentally released that firmware that broke the throttle, so eh, good job?
Crypto is one of those weird things. It should have crashed already but its really only kept going by people being told how awesome it is. Its not even as secure for transactions as it used too be, governments can track spending with it. Plus its a commodity so saying you have $500 million in crypto is cool till you try to get that cash. Anyone who sees you liquidating that much will immediately sell also since it would cause the price to take a plunge. Also its only a matter of time till quantum computing shows up and there is a legit worry, at least with bitcoin that one of those could be powerful enough to control 51% of the block chain and then suddenly that one machine can control who owns what.
Probably nothing. Maybe countries banning mining en masse, but that'll probably just push it underground, and that rarely ever makes things better.
Saying AMD and nVidia are in full support of Crypto currency because that's what a majority of their buyers are doing with it is like saying Ford is fully in support of the kidnapping business because kidnappers use a Ford Transit Van to commit their dastardly crime.700,000 GPUs Shipped to Cryptominers in the First Quarter of 2021
Miners making it rain
So at this point it’s safe to say Nvidia and AMD are fully behind supporting digital currencies at the expense of all their other customers. Wonder how long this will continue before big brother decides to hook their talons into the new game in town.
The best they could do - and its still piss weak - would be to not honour any real money gain based on the crypto. But even then I'm still not actually that sure I know how they trade or convert this shit for real dollerydoos anyway.
Ford isn’t dedicating a mass quantity of vans to criminals specifically. The issue here with GPU supply is chipmakers are purposely and specifically using currently very scarce raw materials towards the production of chips they designed solely for this.
