“Out of stock, out of stock, out of stock!” is the situation of the recent graphics card market all over the world. Bitcoin miners from mainland China, Russia, Japan are enthusiastically grabbing GPUs and surging demand from eSports are the main reasons for that. The big name of graphics card supplier AMD promises to step up production, and its Taiwan-based supplier even will work during the Chinese Spring Festival.
GPUs become the hot cake
Both the market of eSports and mining rigs are on explosive growth, resulting in the global supply shortage as well as price soaring of GPUs. Eyeing on the lucrative profit of bitcoin, bitcoin miners are lavishing on this “cash printer”, plus the actual production and storage of GPUs are limited, these two factors make the stock-out problem worse.
Bitcoin price is still high despite the recent correction, and the features of bitcoin make miners firmly believe that bitcoin will go soaring and thus continue to buy in components of mining rigs like motherboard and graphics card.
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