Allen
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Over three million add-in boards (AIBs) were sold to cryptocurrency miners worth $776 million in 2017. AMD was the primary benefactor of those sales.
“Gaming has been and will continue to be the primary driver for GPU sales, augmented by the demand from cryptocurrency miners.,” said Dr. Jon Peddie, President of Jon Peddie research. We expect demand to slacken from the miners as margins drop in response increasingly utilities costs and supply and demand forces that drive up AIB prices. Gamers can offset those costs by mining when not gaming, but prices will not drop in the near future.”
More of the same from the financial market analyzers.
Good for AMD and Nvidia bottom line. Not fun for many gamers. I notice the formerly roughly $550 list price custom RX Vega 64 is now $1200 at Newegg (but, hey, its on special sale -- sale ends Monday).