By Darren Allan
As we saw earlier today, AMD has just revealed some impressive financial results, driven primarily by Ryzen and Ryzen 2nd Generation processors, but the firm is understandably keen to keep pushing ahead on the graphics card front as well, with assurances from the CEO that gamers are AMD’s priority – as opposed to cryptocurrency miners.
There is a growing demand for AMD hardware from those mining virtual coins, as we’ve seen in recent times, with graphics cards becoming thin on the ground – for both AMD and Nvidia – and prices spiraling upwards as supply fails to meet demand.
And while AMD is obviously still going to sell products to cryptocurrency miners, in her post-results conference call chatter, CEO Lisa Su stress that gamers come first.
As the Register reports, Su said: “Our first priority is to gamers, that’s through OEM and system integrators and key e-tailers, and we’re going to continue to do that.
“We’ll also work with commercial miners; we’ve talked and see what their forecasts are, so we have good visibility on the market. The blockchain infrastructure is here to stay, there are numerous currencies and apps that will keep things going there.”
What’s interesting is that …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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