> But not before ramping up development and production of GPUs.
Did the GPU manufactures ever embrace cryptocurrency? IIRC, they actually tried to discourage it (e.g. by butting throttling into mass market models to discourage their use for computation).
Desktops is a very very key word there, I believe that’s why they repeat it so much. And it’s all tongue in cheek, and we all largely understand mining drove up gpu demand
Did the GPU manufactures ever embrace cryptocurrency? IIRC, they actually tried to discourage it (e.g. by butting throttling into mass market models to discourage their use for computation).
Also, the graphs here show a long-term downward trend, with only a short-term sales blip 5 years ago due to cryptocurrency: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-....