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But not before ramping up development and production of GPUs.
by anamexis 3y ago
But not before ramping up development and production of GPUs.
- tivert 3y ago> But not before ramping up development and production of GPUs. Did the GPU manufactures ever embrace cryptocurrency? IIRC, they actually tried to discourage it (e.g. by butting throttling into mass market models to discourage their use for computation). Also, the graphs here show a long-term downward trend, with only a short-term sales blip 5 years ago due to cryptocurrency: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-20-year-low https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-....
- refulgentis 3y agoDesktops is a very very key word there, I believe that’s why they repeat it so much. And it’s all tongue in cheek, and we all largely understand mining drove up gpu demand
- kevingadd 3y agoProduction MAYBE, I'm not sure what makes you think bitcoin would have ramped up the development of GPUs. What part of the last 10 years of GPU development looks bitcoin-focused to you? They're still very very focused on rendering and machine learning, not computing hashes.