Last week, we drew attention to the forecast of experts from Pacific Crest, who claimed that by the end of the second quarter the sales of video cards will grow by 20% due to the excessive demand for them from crypto currency receivers. Today on the pages of the resource Barron's Tech Trader Daily we got an expanded version of this forecast, and it contained not only a pleasant for the producers and sellers of video cards information.
To begin with, AMD and NVIDIA partners do not promise that the demand for video cards from the supporters of "mining" will remain at the current level until the end of the year. Many of them do not plan to sell more video cards in the third quarter than in the second. Moreover, NVIDIA in this sphere is more pessimistic than AMD, and the volume of graphics processors for the needs of miners does not increase.
Such a conservative attitude, however, does not mean that video card manufacturers will not be able to earn on "crypto-currency " in the third quarter. The increased prices for video cards will allow them to increase revenue compared to the same period last year. Most video card manufacturers, according to the source, are not ready to guarantee that the high demand for products will last after July-August this year. The market for crypto currency is highly volatile, and no one can
make long-term forecasts.
It's interesting that RBC Capital specialists estimate their total capacity for the video cards used in the production of crypto-currencies - it reached $ 875 million in value terms in the first half of the month, but increased by 25% over the last 11 days. According to indirect signs, experts calculated that only NVIDIA sold (through its partners, of course) video cards worth about $ 100 million for the period from June 9 to June 20, which were involved in the production of crypto-currencies.