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I noticed a lot in PC gaming circles there is a lot of tunnel vision going on with the chip shortage. They don't know much on how high performance GPUs are just a tip of the iceberg of all the wafers that have to be made- most of them are put into more mundane uses, in everyday items from cars to pregnancy tests. Factories can't ship out enough cars to be made. Car rental companies are feeling these effects this year, by not being able to accept as many new cars for their fleet, driving up the cost of rentals. On the more general purpose computing side of things, there's a greater focus on SoC's for laptops and embedded since there are greater yields compared to GPUs.Miners are an easy scapegoat for all this because they genuinely affected the stock of graphics cards back in 2014-15. So gamers are convinced history is just repeating itself in 2020 almost the same and think, "we can blame miners again", even though it's not at all the same this time. It's shutdowns of the supply chain crunching consumers, not consumers bottlenecking a supply chain.
I noticed a lot in PC gaming circles there is a lot of tunnel vision going on with the chip shortage. They don't know much on how high performance GPUs are just a tip of the iceberg of all the wafers that have to be made- most of them are put into more mundane uses, in everyday items from cars to pregnancy tests. Factories can't ship out enough cars to be made. Car rental companies are feeling these effects this year, by not being able to accept as many new cars for their fleet, driving up the cost of rentals. On the more general purpose computing side of things, there's a greater focus on SoC's for laptops and embedded since there are greater yields compared to GPUs.
Miners are an easy scapegoat for all this because they genuinely affected the stock of graphics cards back in 2014-15. So gamers are convinced history is just repeating itself in 2020 almost the same and think, "we can blame miners again", even though it's not at all the same this time. It's shutdowns of the supply chain crunching consumers, not consumers bottlenecking a supply chain.
