In recent years, everyone should have some understanding of graphics card mining virtual currency, artificial intelligence AI, the company behind this is the man in a leather coat - Huang Jenxun, with a large demand for graphics cards in mining and AI technology, Huang Jenxun's management of NVIDIA has developed rapidly, in just a few years to become the world's most dazzling technology company, the stock price has doubled, Huang Jenxun as the CEO is the world's richest man.
During this period, there have been many ridiculous things, the market price of civilian graphics cards remains high, and the second-hand graphics cards used can be bought at 2 times the purchase price for mining, and the graphics cards have become financial products. Gamers are hard to find a graphics card to play games, and the installation cost has increased significantly, and the price of a graphics card in a whole machine will account for half or even higher. For companies doing AI development, having graphics card hardware can even be used as their own advantage to attract investment. Its development of CUDA is a must-have for artificial intelligence, and a lot of development is based on this, so it can be said that NVIDIA is not on the front line, but it is the core of the core, and it can't be played without it.
A large number of graphics cards are used for mining
Because of the early layout of CUDA technology, after the advent of the era of artificial intelligence and AI, NVIDIA has formed a de facto monopoly position in the GPU chip market, and AMD can't develop it if it wants to. In 2023, NVIDIA's PC GPU chip sales will reach a staggering 30.34 million units, accounting for more than 80% of the global market share. In contrast, Nvidia's rival AMD sold only 22% of Nvidia's GPUs in the same period, and most of them were concentrated in the game server field, making it difficult to put substantial pressure on NVIDIA.
It is in such a market environment that Lao Huang began to rot, and the new hardware is squeezing toothpaste from generation to generation, and a long time ago, the newly launched entry-level dessert graphics card can still play the middle of the previous generation of products. Up to now,This upgrade can be said to be minimal,In addition to the new technical architecture,The power consumption is a little lower,The actual performance of the game is basically the same as the previous generation,Take the latest 40 series graphics card as an example,4060 and 3060There is not much difference in the number of frames in the game! With all kinds of castration on the newly launched graphics card hardware, it has become a luxury for consumers to want to buy high-quality and inexpensive graphics cards.
AMD will abandon the high-end graphics card market
Originally, AMD could still put pressure on Lao Huang under competition, but Lao Huang's CUDA layout was too early, and it has become the only standard for AI in fact, AMD can't do it if it wants to, and recently announced that it would abandon the research and development of high-end graphics cards, which has intensified NVIDIA's monopoly position.
The U.S. government launched this antitrust investigation against NVIDIA at this time, which can be said to be the right time, if the anti-monopoly is successful, consumers will reuse high-quality and high-performance graphics cards in the future! Let's hope that day will come sooner rather than later!