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AMD Radeon RX 500 series graphics cards, particularly the RX 580 and 570, have been out of stock for weeks now owing to the cryptocurrency mining craze. The market had shifted away from GPU mining a couple of years back after several China based companies launched specialized ASICs that were much faster and more power efficient at resolving the block chain equations necessary to mine Bitcoin and Litecoin, the Gold and Silver of cryptocurrencies.
However GPU mining has seen a massive resurgence over the past little while due to the rising popularity of ASIC resistent coins. Chief among which is Etherium which has seen its price more than triple in a matter of months. AMD's Add-In-Board partners have caught on to this and have already started directly advertising to miners.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @04:52PM
do you not understand that when you are the underdog you are supposed to look for any areas where you are competitive or could be and maximize that opportunity? because your upper management is so incompetent, people are buying nvidia cards for both mining and gaming because graphics cards manufacturers can't get chips from you so there aren't any cards at all. I won't buy nvidia so i just won't buy. also, you had a well liked card for mining that is just so so for gaming. you could have just done a special release of chips needed for rx480 aimed at miners and ready your production lines for more if they sold. problem solved!!! gamers could get the newer hotter running cards and miners could get a somewhat efficient card until you could get your morons in design/marketing/whoever to make proper cards and utilities for miners. instead you do what? sit there like idiots until you run out of stock nationwide/worldwide? way to go AMD!! fire whoever let this happen and hire people who are hungrier. pitiful.