Allen
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Samsung is making ASIC chips for crypto mining to solidify its lead over Intel
Samsung is the new top dog in the chip-making game, having bumped Intel into second place, and confirmed it will make cryptocurrency mining chips to solidify its lead..
"Samsung's foundry business is currently engaged in the manufacturing of cryptocurrency mining chips. However we are unable to disclose further details regarding our customers," a Samsung spokesperson told TechCrunch..
..using gaming GPUs for mining ends up with graphics card prices being bumped up out of the reach of PC gaming enthusiasts...
From a PC gaming enthusiast perspective, I hope Samsung and the companies they sell to come up with a cheaper (than a GPU) custom cryptocurrency chip device soon -- for the obvious reason that the miners would switch to that (all about money to them) -- making GPUs affordable to us gamers again.
The words used were "currently engaged in the manufacturing". Hopefully, the means they are being built today and the non-GPU mining-devices will arrive "soon" (probably still months away).
