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		ivewonyoung 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced a... Don't the ASICs compete with the same fab capacity that fabs GPUs, RAM, SSDs etc.

svnt 17 days ago | [–]

You’re fractionally right with GPUs but RAM and SSDs run on different processes at different fabs.

marcosdumay 17 days ago | [–]

They compete with older GPUs. Not new ones, not RAM, and not SSDs.

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