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haxxiy said:

JEMC said:

I don't think the first gen of Intel GPUs will do well.

They won't launch until the end of the year and by then the supply problems we're facing now should've been fixed and Nvidia could have launched their refresh cards. Plus we would be hearing rumors about AMD and Nvidia's next architectures.

I doubt these companies have any interest in the chance of a supply shock. If prices fall too much, cryptos could be dragged down with it because of a lowered entry barrier, and the market is flooded with used parts. Good luck explaining to your shareholders why your shiny new product is selling at hundreds of dollars lower than it was forecasted to sell.

Why bother selling large die GPUs at gaming prices when you have the chance to make it into a lucrative market with server-like margins instead?

But that has nothing to do with Nvidia nor AMD. They produce the chips and sell them to their AIB partners with fixes prices that have been stablished in contracts. They're only making more money because they're selling more chips.

It's the likes of Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, etc that are inflating the prices of their cards and then there are also the stores raising their prices even more to reap the profits of this whole crypto bullsh*t. They're the ones that will see their profits fall like a rock when/if the current crypto crazy ends and, to be honest, I don't give a fuck if they have problems because of that.