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Bitcoin is the biggest crypto currency and uses proof of work. As mentioned in the conclusion, ASICs use the same resources as GPUs. This can have an effect on
by h4kor 5y ago
Bitcoin is the biggest crypto currency and uses proof of work. As mentioned in the conclusion, ASICs use the same resources as GPUs. This can have an effect on GPU prices. Additionally bitcoin is still the "gold standard" and most crypto currencies follow the price development of bitcoin.
- ericd 5y agoDo you think Bitmain is winning bids for fab capacity against Nvidia/AMD? I guess their newest miner is slated to be on 5nm...
- h4kor 5y agoThey can probably pay higher prices when mining rewards are high.
- ericd 5y agoMaybe. Just hard to imagine a company with employees numbered in the low hundreds competing for fab capacity with nVidia.
- h4kor 5y agoNVidia has a far greater complexity to handle. GPUs do a lot of things and are more generalized with each iteration. In comparison ASICs are super simple chips. If GPUs would still use the fixed rendering pipeline they started with ( only push your triangles and texture to the GPU and you get your image) they could also handle their business with a few hundred employees. Just shrink your chips to the latest fab size, add more computing cores, maybe improve some algorithm if a better solution is found.