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In the long run, explosion in demand for GPUs will help lower prices and push the technical envelope for enveryone, including the gamers complaining in this art
by doitLP 9y ago
In the long run, explosion in demand for GPUs will help lower prices and push the technical envelope for enveryone, including the gamers complaining in this article.
- elorant 9y agoI wouldn't be so sure about that. Increased demand for RAM due to smartphones usage has led the prices upwards, not downwards.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoI think that's only likely if the demand is sustained though another development cycle / generation of GPU products, though. If demand collapses soon, it'll just be yet another story about how the market was really weird for a bit.
- duxup 9y agoOnly if the folks providing the cards decide that it is worth investing in having a larger pipeline of production. If they feel the volatility might be too great... they may choose not to.
- rosser 9y agoThis is an oft-repeated article of faith, which I have yet to see realized despite years of sustained extra demand for GPUs.
- icebraining 9y agoI'm not saying doitLP is right, but "years" is not a long time for building extra production capacity across the manufacturing process. Hell, they probably need a couple years of sustained demand to even consider upgrading it.