Quote Originally Posted by kompukare View Post
Is there any evidence that during any previous mining booms, that either AMD or Nvidia actually made any extra money from mining?
I would have thought the only thing they get from it is more interest in AMD/NVidia depending on what cards are being grabbed by the miners, they make the chips, the rest then goes to AIB's, they might hold stock or bump prices as demand changes, I would have thought the main people making profits would be the retailers that get the stock, hold some with inflated prices to make money there and then open cards and mine the crap out of them for a while before selling them as B stock, also at inflated prices while sitting on a load of crypto made from the cards..