Lisa Su, president of AMD does not consider mining a long-term growth strategy for the company, despite the boom in graphic cards from the side of miners. Although, she does not rule out that everything can change. She notes that the company noticed an increased demand, but in the company's growth forecast they are not targeting crypto-currencies. At the same time, the company will continue to monitor the development of technology blockbuster.
Judging by the financial results for the last quarter, AMD revenue grew by 19% compared to the second quarter of 2016. In general, the entire income was 1.22 billion dollars. The reason for this growth in the popularity of graphics processors is also present.
Mining is a fairly energy-intensive process that requires colossal energy and powerful processors for operation. During this process, new transactions are added to the block system and for them, tokens are issued tokens. The main users of GPUs are Ethereum miners, and due to a sharp increase in price (at the moment the price has already fallen) Ethereum attention and competition have increased, for competitiveness, miners increase their capacity. In this regard, Bitcoin uses special system blocks for mining.
