Not sure if it's the right board or if it's been already discussed, apologies if so, but:
with all the talk about top ATI cards being sold out throughout the western world, do you guys think that the card manufacturers actually take notice of bitcoin phenomenon, or is it not even a blip on ATI's and NVidia's radar?
How about manufacturers, like MSI, Saphire and others?
Do you think they are working on custom chips?
Do they realize that they have a interest on helping to keep BTC alive?
Precisely. The vast majority of all sold AMD/Nvidia graphics cards are low to midrange cards for OEM computers, such as Radeon 5450, GT 420, Radeon 5750, GTX 460 etc.
They are also used as dumping pits for excess VRAM chips, so you may see an absurd amount like 2GB of memory on a GT420 for OEM use. It's a very profitable business.
Consider that these 2 companies sell tens of millions of graphics cards per year. Bitcoin users buy maybe 20,000-30k GPU's top
(which is still optimistic, seeing as most people use their pre-bought rigs, and some still mine on CPU's, few people actually build farms).
Ok, miners tend to buy high end cards which is a plus for their bottom line.
But it's still a drop in the ocean for them to care. Gamers and Eyefinity users still buy the majority of those.
Orignal From: mpact on GFX manufacturers?
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