Market research firm Jon Peddie Research reports that miners in 2017 bought more than three million video cards in total. An amount of in total 776 million dollars would be involved.
According to the agency, the gaming sector is still the primary source for the sales of video cards, and the demand from minors comes back to that. The agency thinks, however, that the demand for video cards for mincing cryptocurrencies will be less, because the margins will come under more pressure due to the increased video card prices and rising energy costs.
Jon Peddie, the founder of the research bureau, states that gamers can partly recover the current high costs for video cards, but he does not foresee a drop in the price of video cards in the near future.
The analysis of the research bureau shows that the supply of graphic chips for desktops and laptops fell by 4.8 percent over the whole of 2017. AMD would have delivered 8.1 percent more gpu's in the last quarter of 2017, while a decrease of nearly 2 percent in that area at Intel and a decrease of 6 percent at Nvidia.
AMD would have increased its market share in 2017 by 8.1 percent to a total of 14.4 percent, while Nvidia's market share, despite the record sales of game division, lost 6 percent in market share and stood at 17.5 percent. Intel is still by far the largest player in the graphics chips market with a market share of 68.1 percent, while in 2013 it still had a market share of 63.4 percent.