Quote from: suchmoon on May 05, 2018, 12:25:53 PM

Quote from: yrk1957 on May 05, 2018, 08:22:53 AM

Why do you think AMD/Nvidia are even in the mining game?

What does Nvidia get when a retailer price gouges while selling a card? Zero. NVidia would make money by selling chips to board manufacturers or selling cards directly. Do you know if NVidia has marked up its chip prices due to mining?

Its does not seem interested in selling cards directly as its store is almost always out of stock and always at sane prices (e.g. 1080ti at $699).

If it was interested in mining, it would stock up its store and mark up its prices due to high demand. Clearly that has not happened.

And would a public listed company risk investing heavily in crypto market, which faces regulatory challenges worldwide? It would an extremely adventurous move to say the least.

They're in the game whether they want it or not. NVIDIA makes the P series specifically for mining. They also acknowledge the revenue albeit as "difficult to quantify".

https://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/call-transcript.aspx?StoryId=4144915&Title=nvidia-s-nvda-ceo-jen-hsun-huang-on-q4-2018-results-earnings-call-transcript

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Strong demand in the cryptocurrency market exceeded our expectations. We met some of this demand with a dedicated board in our OEM business and some was not with our gaming GPUs.

This contributed to lower than historical channel inventory levels of our gaming GPUs throughout the quarter. While the overall contribution of cryptocurrency to our business remains difficult to quantify, we believe it was a higher percentage of revenue than the prior quarter. That said, our main focus remains on our core gaming market, as cryptocurrency trends will likely remain volatile.

Yep the big fear for them is a complete crash making a glut of 300-400 dollar 1080ti's even AMD has this issue.

If I am a gamer and this seller on ebay

https://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=philipma1957

is selling 350 dollar 1080ti's

{note the seller is me I am not selling any 1080tis}

I would buy that 1080ti knowing I have an ebay return. This happened with last the crash. Except it affected AMD a lot more then Nvidia.

This time both builders will be affected.

So like it or not both AMD and Nvidia will have to counter move on Asics and FPGAs.

I think the op has a good idea here I just caution people about countermoves.

Once again if my Nvidia-Amd coin of the month is invented with 36 algos ready to be placed in on the first of each month for my mining card with a 3 year warranty how fast does the fpga get reprogrammed? Also how long is its warranty?

GPUS with 3 year warranties have a place in a low power operation. My solar array deal with buysolar is 'free' power So the gpus would earn for as long as they last.

Does an fpga have a 36 month warranty?