Reading the news seems Vega is delayed due HBM shortage.
Another possibility IMHO is AMD is delaying to avoid crypto currency mining.
The whole mining is really not a business for AMD, with his final customers waiting for cards, the market flooded later with squeezed second hand, less developers owning the card to optimize sw on it.
So maybe it's not entirely due to HBM shortage AMD is planning to release the professional card first.
Less interesting for miners due to high price, thy will go to their final users and developers.
Leave miners to exhaust the stock of Polaris cards and possibly squeeze out the last coins, and only after present retail cards.
Will not be surprised if there will be a limit to purchase more than 2 cards at a time.
And possibly being less optimized for mining if possible.
Another good point will be to fund the development of some crypto currency more optimized for CUDA cores mining, the same as i.e. Ethereum unoptimized by design for FPGA mining.
Another possibility IMHO is AMD is delaying to avoid crypto currency mining.
The whole mining is really not a business for AMD, with his final customers waiting for cards, the market flooded later with squeezed second hand, less developers owning the card to optimize sw on it.
So maybe it's not entirely due to HBM shortage AMD is planning to release the professional card first.
Less interesting for miners due to high price, thy will go to their final users and developers.
Leave miners to exhaust the stock of Polaris cards and possibly squeeze out the last coins, and only after present retail cards.
Will not be surprised if there will be a limit to purchase more than 2 cards at a time.
And possibly being less optimized for mining if possible.
Another good point will be to fund the development of some crypto currency more optimized for CUDA cores mining, the same as i.e. Ethereum unoptimized by design for FPGA mining.
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