[gonab]

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[titzer]

Read the article. The author corrected for the overall market trends using linear regression.

[h4kor]

This would show up in the CPUs. But their prices are stable.

[tgsovlerkhgsel]

For me, that indicates that it's not a "general chip shortage" issue (i.e. not "ASICs are making the chip shortage worse" either), at which point https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29766829 makes it hard to see the correlation as caused by cryptocurrencies.