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Graphics card vendors upbeat about crytocurrency mining

..according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI), TUL, Colorful and Galaxy Microsystems have all been aggressive about the cryptocurrency opportunity since the mining trend emerged, and they have seen dramatic growths in related businesses. Asustek only started to see benefits from the segmnet in the third quarter.
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Asustek has now estimated that the mining trend will last at least until the end of 2017...


AMD and Nvidia GPUs are used -- are in short supply and cost more because of Mining. Miners seem to prefer AMD "bang per buck". That's understandable. Mining is a business that's all about "cryptos per buck".

Original "guesstimates" said mining would be winding down this month -- and GPU prices would drop. But, not yet.

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