Well, it's supply and demand. I think bitcoin has been more of a factor in trebling graphics card prices, for some types of card, it's that GPU power they're after as opposed to memory.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 29 May 2018, at 1:40 PM, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > That's an interesting reason for the price fixing! And, there is also > now this whole Bitcoin farming stuff - besides tradtional server farms > used for things like 3D Animation rendering. All this besides the > increased capacity/need for desktop computing in the corp. biz world! > > -K- > > > On 5/29/2018 4:22 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > >> Something's not right here. Seems like priced fixing/cartel. > > Huge demand from server farms, mobile devices and a lack of fabrication > > capacity. > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1527603518.2284696.1389147912.4d1aa...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

