<h4>Due to high earnings opportunity, Cryptocurrency miners are causing constant shortages of high-end graphics cards on the market. These shortages caused by high demand resulted in soaring prices of graphics cards.</h4>
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<p>Last week Nvidia reported soaring profits with a revenue of $2.9 billion in the fourth quarter which is 10% increase from the third quarter with a net income risen by 33%.</p>
<p>Nvidia chief financial officer Kress Colette said that a strong demand in the cryptocurrency market exceeded their expectations. Colette also said that cryptocurrency miners are a significant source of demand and that crypto mining is still on the rise.</p>
<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed that gamers suffer from GPU shortages. &#8220;We typically have between six to eight weeks of inventory in the channel globally right now the channel is relatively lean, we&#8217;re working really hard to get GPUs out into the marketplace for the gamers.</p>
<p>Along with Nvidia, AMD is also enjoying this crypto mining madness. AMD CEO Lisa Su said that AMD had a second-quarter record with GPU revenue improving average selling price with an increase in unit sales. She also said that both gaming and crypto mining contributed to this strong demand.</p>
<p>With all these shortages and pumped high-end graphics card prices, we can only wait until crypto-miners loose interest or start selling their cards in a pursuit of a new hardware with better hash rates.</p>