What’s driving GPU sales—COVID, games, or Crypto?

  We’ve been tracking GPU and before that graphics controller shipments for decades, and we think we have a sense of their trends and seasonal behavior. Most recently, our Market Watch report for Q3 2020 reveals unusual buying patterns for graphics boards and we naturally wondered, what’s up? Look at the following chart that shows shipments for the past 15 years. Discrete and integrated GPU shipments over 10 years   What we observe from this is that there is a certain seasonality to shipments, which has been distorted from time to time by factors such as recessions and crypto-mining. If