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by leereeves 1903 days ago
> I don't think crypto is the only reason for GPU shortage (others being more demand from stay-at-home people, and general semiconductor shortages)

Then why are only GPUs unavailable?

We can still easily buy CPUs, memory, SSDs, etc.
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mschuster91 1903 days ago
Memory and SSD chips are made on older processes with coarser structures which means that they're more or less unaffected by the current limitations in manufacturing capacity that CPUs and GPUs suffer.
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bayindirh 1903 days ago
> Then why are only GPUs unavailable?

Because they're harder to build, and there is some serious HPC capacity is being built up right now around the world, which buys these chips buy thousands.

Same entities which hoard Tesla GPUs are not interested in unregistered RAM, consumer SSDs and CPUs. Unfortunately, a run of the mill Tesla is not much different from a GeForce. OTOH, RAM, CPU and SSD for these applications are built from different parts.

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