Crypto-mining’s half a billion dollar impact on AIB sales

Source: Stefen Chow IEEE Spectrum   Anyone interested in graphics add-in boards (AIBs) knows the supply has gone to zero and the prices have hit the stratosphere. But why? There are several possibilities, but most of the blame is being laid at the door of the crypto miners, particularly the Ethereum miners. Why? Because the Ethereum algorithm for hash monitoring takes advantage of the GPU’s tightly coupled memory interface, manager, and the associated high-speed GDDR6 RAM. Ethereum developers have promised to change that algorithm and make it more adaptable to a custom ASIC, but that hasn’t happened yet. In the early