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How long will that situation last though, with Ethereum 2.0 around the corner and the next difficulty bomb scheduled for December? https://www.reddit.com/r/eth

How long will that situation last though, with Ethereum 2.0 around the corner and the next difficulty bomb scheduled for December? https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/olla5w/eip_3554_or_how_i_learned_to_stop_worrying_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/olla5w/eip_3554_o... Intel could be launching their cards into a GPU surplus... That's discrete GPUs though, presumably the major volumes are in laptop GPUs? Will Intel have a CPU+GPU combo product for laptops?

orra 5y ago
Alas: Bitcoin.
- cinntaile 5y ago
  You don't mine bitcoin with a GPU, those days are long gone.
errantspark 5y ago
> How long will that situation last though Probably until at least 2022 because the shortage of GPUs isn't solely because of crypto. Until we generally get back on track tricking sand to think we're not going to be able to saturate demand. > Will Intel have a CPU+GPU combo product for laptops? What? Obviously the answer is yes, how could it possibly be no? CPU+GPU combo is the only GPU related segment where Intel currently has a product.
- NonContro 5y ago
  To be more specific, Intel currently allocates a fair chunk of their dies to iGPUs. Will that no longer be the case when Intel manufacturers their own dedicated GPUs? It seems like a waste of silicon.
dathinab 5y ago
It's not "just" a shortage of GPU's but all kinds of components. And it's also not "just" caused by miners. But that means if they are really unlucky they could launch into a situation where there is a surplus of good second hand graphic cards and still shortages/price hikes on the GPU components they use... Through as far as I can tell they are more targeting OEM's (any OEM instead of a selected few), and other large customers, so it might not matter too much for them for this release (but probably from the next one after one-ward it would).

orra 5y ago

Alas: Bitcoin.

cinntaile 5y ago
You don't mine bitcoin with a GPU, those days are long gone.

errantspark 5y ago

> How long will that situation last though Probably until at least 2022 because the shortage of GPUs isn't solely because of crypto. Until we generally get back on track tricking sand to think we're not going to be able to saturate demand. > Will Intel have a CPU+GPU combo product for laptops? What? Obviously the answer is yes, how could it possibly be no? CPU+GPU combo is the only GPU related segment where Intel currently has a product.

NonContro 5y ago
To be more specific, Intel currently allocates a fair chunk of their dies to iGPUs. Will that no longer be the case when Intel manufacturers their own dedicated GPUs? It seems like a waste of silicon.

dathinab 5y ago

It's not "just" a shortage of GPU's but all kinds of components. And it's also not "just" caused by miners. But that means if they are really unlucky they could launch into a situation where there is a surplus of good second hand graphic cards and still shortages/price hikes on the GPU components they use... Through as far as I can tell they are more targeting OEM's (any OEM instead of a selected few), and other large customers, so it might not matter too much for them for this release (but probably from the next one after one-ward it would).