Allen
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Nvidia pricing is also affected by Cryptocurrency mining and expensive memory:
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NVIDIA Graphics Card Prices To Continue To Rise Until December Report Claims
NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics card prices will see a price uptick amounting to roughly 10% starting this month due to a global memory shortage. A new report by Mizuho’s chief semiconductor analyst emerged yesterday claiming that this pricing inflation trend will continue until December, when cryptocurrency driven demand is expected to die down..
..cryptocurrency miners .. have driven GPU prices up by 25% in the past six months..
Graphics card supply from both NVIDIA and AMD has consistently been under pressure over the past several months, due to the recent boom in the cryptocurrency coin Ethereum. Unlike other cryptocurrencies .. , Ethereum can only be efficiently mined using GPUs..
..the profit incentive to mine is slowly eroding...
