Allen
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As we know, the cost effective GPUs (in particular AMD GPUs) are now overpriced due to:
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Good luck building a VR PC: Ethereum miners are buying all the GPUs
Once the tap turns on again, GPUs will restore PCs and edge computing to glory
..As Ethereum ballooned to its highest historical value (nearly USD $400 for a single ETH), it became a wise investment to buy a cheap PC with a beefy power supply, stock it up with GPUs [for Ethereum mining]...
But, the cost-effective-GPU shortage due to mining is temporary. The future is about cost effective GPUs for "other than gaming".
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..Moving away from the general-purpose CPU .. the GPU [is becoming] more important than the CPU. The GPU is central to all the roles we expect 21st century computers to fill. This may be the reason Apple recently ditched chip designer Imagination in favor of their own, home-grown GPU. Within a few years, every computing device of consequence - supercomputer, desktop or smartphone - will be driven by architectures and operating systems that center around the GPU...
AMD has been working on a way to make GPUs of seemingly unlimited power (Nvidia is on the same path). The key is making many small GPU chips act like a single super large GPU chip (not CrossFireX or SLI chips). AMD's Navi GPU is rumored to be such a multi-chip GPU -- rumored/speculated for 2019.
