Cryptominers are keeping the gaming netbook market going
Why should Nvidia have all the fun?
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According to reports,cryptominersin China, Taiwan, and South Korea have started urging manufacturers to create custom laptops with theNvidia RTX 30series of graphics.
Nvidiahas been struggling to keep up with the demand for its latest line ofGPUs, not just from gamers, but also from cryptominers. This despite itcurbing the crypto mining capabilitiesof its newest graphics cards, and announcing anew series of processorsmade especially for crypto mining.
Yet, inspite of all these developments, a report inDigiTimeshas revealed an unexpected surge in the demand for custom laptops fueled primarily bycryptominers.
GPU with a shell
Although news of crypto miners using high-end gaming laptops for mining crypto isn’t new, theDigiTimesreport points to a new trend.
According to the report while “notebook shipments were originally expected to slip quarter by quarter in 2021 as the pandemic would be gradually put under control,” it might not play out since the “demand from cryptomining may keep the volumes in high gear.”
Since the crypto miners have no interest in using the laptops for gaming, they’ve started asking manufacturers for a custom line that combines the Nvidia RTX 30 series of graphics cards with low-cost budget components.
Just as Nvidia is catering to the demand for its GPUs for cryptomining with the new line of Cryptocurrency Mining Processors (CMP), it stands to reason that laptop manufacturers would want to cash in on this new trend as well.
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With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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