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0 pointsanamexis2y ago0 comments

But not before ramping up development and production of GPUs.

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> 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-....

refulgentis2y ago

Desktops 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

kevingadd2y ago

Production 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.

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