No. They (nvidia or someone else) should be building tons and tons of cards for the existing demand. I just cant understand why isnt someone salivating at such market inefficiency.
They did exactly that just 3 years ago when bitcoin was hot, and (when bitcoin crashed) ended up with an oversupply of GTX cards that delayed Turing sales and tanked the stock for a while. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-cryptocurrency-earn...
Doesn't really make sense to blame Turing's sales on this when it was also a pretty bad generation in general (price hikes, poor performance, RTX gimmick turned out to be a flop).
because building 8nm semiconductor fabs is slightly harder than setting up a lemonade stand.
A thought just occurred to me: is there an upper limit to how much computing power (and energy) cryptocurrency mining can reasonably use? Or could all computer hardware be repurposed to mine crypto and there would still be demand for more hardware?
Usually the amount of crypto that can be mined in a given time frame is limited. So you could buy more hardware, but it would not be profitable.