Why isn't AMD (or the video card manufacturers, I don't

Glofo fab capacity is 80% EPYC/Ryzen/TR and now upcoming Raven Ridge.

The measly leftovers are left for Polaris and Vega

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>ramp up production of GPUs for mining boom
>mining bust comes
>left with thousands of GPUs you have to sell at a loss before the next generation goes into production

>>62473388
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>>62473471
Better question, why aren't they jacking the price (MSRP) up in response?
It looks like retailers/distributors are making all the money out of this boom.

>>62473480
MSRP isn't the price they sell to AIB/OEMs and raising the MSRP is bad publicity.

From what I know they do indeed currently sell the chips for higher to them.
You'll not hear anything official about this though, for obvious reasons.

>>62473501
> raising the MSRP is bad publicity.
When your products are already being sold for double MSRP, I don't think consumers care if the MSRP accurately reflects the actual retail price.

>>62473517
That's out of AMD's control, hence the "suggested recommended" in MSRP.
AMD officially raising it, even when the vendors won't play nice will do nothing but make them look greedy.

>>62473388
It takes three months for a wafer order to go through a fab