Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307...
by baybal2 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:55AM
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> Nvidia is trying to get miners to buy mining-only cards, because those can't be sold to gamers down the line. They'd rather mining cards become e-waste in a few years than get resold.
On other note, the "cloud" Vega that AMD sold to the very few cloud videogaming companies comes with exact same limitations, and a clause of non-resale, and non-refurbishment. This way buyers, can't simply solder display connector to those cards, and sell them on open market.
Imagine Intel would've sold their Xeons with the same limitations... but wait, they actually did this for "custom fused" Xeons they sell to big dotcoms.
Now, who said that silicon vendors can't "vendor lock" their dotcom clients? By buying direct, all those dotcoms have exposed themselves to an even bigger supplier risk of this type, and not reduced it.
On other note, the "cloud" Vega that AMD sold to the very few cloud videogaming companies comes with exact same limitations, and a clause of non-resale, and non-refurbishment. This way buyers, can't simply solder display connector to those cards, and sell them on open market.
Imagine Intel would've sold their Xeons with the same limitations... but wait, they actually did this for "custom fused" Xeons they sell to big dotcoms.
Now, who said that silicon vendors can't "vendor lock" their dotcom clients? By buying direct, all those dotcoms have exposed themselves to an even bigger supplier risk of this type, and not reduced it.