Cryptocurrency miners snap up so many computer chips that mining has become a market

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By Yoongi in Technology
Updated 3 years ago

Wednesday on the show, we talked about cryptocurrency's impact on the environment. Thursday, we're talking about its impact on the semiconductor shortage. Miners and gamers are competing for high-powered graphics chips, also known as graphics processing units, or GPUs. These are incredibly hard to find right now because of increased pandemic demand.

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