Stefan Mileschin

But most GPUs are sold to miners

Lisa Su was asked at Q2'17 investors conference call about the mining market and she was brave to say that the company didn’t plan its financials over the mining market boom. This sales tsunami did get AMD to a great quarter but to an expense that plucky gamers could not buy any cards.

The situation in the last three months was so volatile that there were almost no Radeon RX480, 470, 570 and 580 cards on the market. The reason was extremely simple, miners were buying thousands of them.

We asked several people at AMD about the fact that gamers could not get the cards because of mining related sales.

Lisa did reply that AMD didn’t made plans based on mining sales. She underlined that AMD wants to focus on gamers as the core of its investments. One of the hottest things at AMD this summer was the GPU salesman with an exception that these great chaps could not get enough supply. This seems like a good problem to have compared to much less of a demand a year ago, or lets say traditional Q2 GPU sales for AMD.

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