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Fortunes turning? Specialized GPUs and SSDs come to aid crypto miners
2.6.2021
Manufacturers restrict mining of cryptocurrencies due to a shortage of GPU cards: Will this lead to the end of mining as we know it?
AMD’s Answer To Nvidia’s DLSS Works On All GPUs
2.6.2021
Nvidia’s DLSS isn’t foolproof, but when it works the performance benefits of AI-powered upscaling can be astonishing. It’s why fans have been pushing AMD for almost a full year to come up with an AI-powered solution of their own, and today, AMD finally announced it. Even better: it’ll work on...
Home Crypto Mining Spikes in Brazil Amid Record High Unemployment
31.5.2021
With rising unemployment rates and rampant economic uncertainty, in the wake of the Covid crisis, a growing number of Brazilians are finding an alternative income source in cryptocurrency mining. GPU rigs have been spotted even in favelas as a relatively small investment can return more than...
Nvidia Makes $155 Million From Crypto Mining Chips in Fiscal Q1
27.5.2021
Graphics cards manufacturer Nvidia has earned $155 million in revenue from chips designed for cryptocurrency mining during the first fiscal quarter. The company admitted that crypto miners have also pushed sales up in the gaming products segment which remains its main market. Leading GPU Maker...
Nvidia Aims to Get Its GPUs Back ‘Into the Hands of Gamers’ by Reducing Mining Capabilities on 3 Graphic Cards
20.5.2021
A major chipmaker keeps making efforts to calm down the gaming community’s anger toward cryptocurrency miners who are taking the lead in buying graphic cards massively, boosting its prices. Nvidia has announced that it will deliberately limit the capabilities for some of its newly graphic...
Hong Kong Customs seizes 300 crypto mining GPUs in anti-smuggling operation
5.4.2021
Hong Kong Customs intercepted a large volume of pricey exotic foods, cosmetics and dedicated cryptocurrency mining GPUs in their latest successful anti-smuggling action
Solo Players With Nivida GPUs Can Pause Always-Online Outriders
4.4.2021
Outriders is an always-online game that you can play entirely solo. Normally, you can’t pause it even when alone. But a clever PC player figured out a way to pause the game using their Nivida GPU.Read more
Hut 8 Purchases $30M Worth of Nvidia’s GPU Miners, Looks to Push Capacity to 1,600 Gigahash
27.3.2021
On Friday, the publicly listed firm Hut 8 announced the purchase of $30 million worth of Nvidia’s dedicated crypto mining GPUs called the Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP). Nvidia CMPs mine the crypto asset ethereum and Hut 8 expects its aggregate operational power will be 1,600 gigahash....
AMD Won’t Restrict Crypto Miners From Using Its Graphic Cards
22.3.2021
Major chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) keeps making headlines amid the battle between crypto miners and PC gamers. Now, the company seems to have made a step forward to become friendlier to those with crypto mining purposes. AMD Doesn’t Want to Follow Nvidia’s Path According to...
AMD Could Release Its Own Crypto GPU to Mine Ethereum to Calm Down the Skirmish Between Miners and Gamers
10.3.2021
A U.S. multinational semiconductor company could be preparing the ground to release its own series of cryptocurrency mining processors. AMD is reportedly looking to introduce a GPU for mining Ethereum. AMD Navi 12 Won’t Have Video Outputs According to PC Gamer, the AMD Navi 12, a graphic...
Nvidia Limits the Efficiency of Mining Ether Using Its GPUs by 50%
22.2.2021
Nvidia announced that it will start limiting the efficiency of mining ethereum or any other crypto using its new range of upcoming graphics processing units (GPUs). In a blog post published Feb. 19, the U.S. hardware maker said this limitation will feature first on its new Geforce RTX 3060 card...
Nvidia Redesigns Graphics Cards to Limit Their Use in Ethereum Mining
18.2.2021
Nvidia is also launching Cryptocurrency Mining Processors (CMP) specifically for Ethereum miners
Crypto Mining Farm Spotted Using High-End Gaming Laptops: Report
11.2.2021
Images have surfaced on Twitter reportedly showing a crypto-mining operation using laptops fitted with high-end Nvidia RTX 30-series graphics cards
Nvidia May Restart Production of Crypto Mining GPUs if Demand Sufficient
18.1.2021
Selling dedicated crypto cards would alleviate pressure on Nvidia's consumer models
Ethereum Classic plans 'Thanos' hard fork to restore mining with older GPUs
27.11.2020
Four gigabyte devices will soon be able to find a new home on ETC
Nvidia Posts Record Q3 Earnings, Sales of GPUs to Crypto Miners Reach $175 Million
21.11.2020
Nvidia released its earnings for the third fiscal quarter of 2021 this week, showing better-than-expected results, driven by sales of its graphics processing unit (GPU) chips. The firm reported graphics segment revenue of $2.79 billion for the quarter, beating analyst estimates of $2.1 billion....
Nvidia Accused of Trying to Discredit Ex-Employee in Crypto Mining Revenue Trial
17.8.2020
Investors suing Nvidia have opposed a motion from the U.S. chipmaker that would shut out the testimony from an ex-employee
AMD-Backed Blockchain Project Amassing 20K GPUs But Won’t Say Why
25.6.2020
Following a seed funding round, AMD and Consensys-backed W3BCLOUD is tripling its GPU capacity for a range of new blockchain functions they don't want to discuss – yet
Ethereum’s ProgPoW Debate Is About Much More Than Mining
5.3.2020
The debate over ProgPoW has become a flashpoint for how Ethereum makes big decisions
Inside Monero’s ‘Last Ditch Effort’ to Block Crypto Mining ASICs
12.6.2019
The Monero community is making one last attempt to block specialized mining hardware devices from the network