Is it just me or is GPU mining dying a very quick death?
It's just you - we've been in an incredible surge the last 3 months or so, now things have corrected some and there might be a shakeout happening a bit sooner than I expected.
GPU mining is STILL a ton more profitable than it was last year at this time though.
I offer you this for fear there is big money in the game over 100 billion in coin and gear.
Intel
Amd
Nvidia
Corsair
Evga
Sapphire
Zotac
Asrock
Asus
Biostar
Dell
HP
Intel, Dell, and HP don't belong on that list. Intel isn't selling many if any HIGH PROFIT CPUs to miners, Dell and HP don't sell systems suited for mining at all.
Corsair is iffy - not all that many miners that like their power supplies, especially to the large number that talk about using EVGA.
AMD is without doubt #1 on that list by quite a bit, between GPU chipsets sold AND some extra CPUs sold.
I don't think Phil is saying "invested" so much as "sales driven up noticeably by sales to miners".