The digital gold rush in the wake of bitcoin mania took everyone by surprise, with hardware providers for crypto mining included. This spurs an increase in demand for graphics cards (GPUs) and mining rigs.
Top 8 bestselling GPUs- Supply shortage
According to Boardchannels (an online information provider of hardware products including main board and graphics card),
in December 2017, sales of the top 8 bestselling GPUs in mainland China rose about 6% compared to the previous month, and 24% compared with the year earlier. Thanks to the vigorous crypto mining, most brand factory failed to replenish the warehouses fast enough for miners’ increasing demand, especially those of mid/high-end.
The top 8 showed are Colorful, Galaxy, ASUS, Sapphire, Maxsun, MSI, Gigabyte and Zotac...
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