This year is seriously a year for bitcoin many in future will say i had invested in 2017. First we see it's adoption in japan , then russia becoming the mining power and now big mining equipments like amd announcing they are now gonna develop crypto mining friends processor. So much has happened in just 8 months i can't imagine what next will happen in the future.
if those manufacturers are trying to create product that miners friendly in 8 months, I think there will be big booming after that. Many more manufacturers will also do the same or better if the pioneers make profit from miner friendly hardware. It means that mining will be energy safing and easy. More people will be miners for bitcoin and others. Wow, I can imagine if that happen, with low cost and earn high reward with new hardware. Wait for the time to come.