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Shipments of GPUs are being slowed down or suspended in light of a slowdown in demand driven by cryptocurrency miners:
Taiwan-based graphics card makers including Gigabyte Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI) and TUL are expected to see their shipments for April plunge over 40% on month, as many clients have suspended taking shipments in response to drastic slowdown in demand for cryptocurrency mining machines, according to industry sources.
Channel distributors and larger mining farm operators have cut orders with makers of mining graphics cards and mining motherboards or asked them to suspend shipments due to the crypto mining craze waning abruptly from the beginning of April, the sources said.
Quite a few mining farm operators have even stopped purchasing graphic cards, as they are awaiting the rollout of Ethereum mining machines by China's Bitmain in the third quarter of 2018. They anticipate mining rewards to pick up gradually in the third quarter, as Bitcoin and Ethereum values may rebound following sharp declines seen in early 2018, the sources indicated.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @05:55PM
shipments being slowed? you stupid motherfuckers are just now getting the cards on the shelves after many, many months, the prices are still not where they should be, mining specific cards not fully available and you're going to "slow down"? fuck you! part of this dip is probably the fault of all you incompetent dipshits not even trying to keep up with demand to begin with. that being said, i will be happy if all these new windows-using miners would GTFO so they can quit polluting the whole ecosystem with their skankiness and stupidity and driving prices and difficulty up.