2023: Will the AIB remain in flux?

This new year could lead to more sanity and stabilization of pricing. Or perhaps not.

January 4, 2023

Robert Dow

C. Robert Dow, digital media manager/tester at Mt. Tiburon Testing Labs, JPRThe GPU and graphic add-in board markets have been through tumultuous times over the past decade. The dramatic rise of crypto in 2016–2017 expanded the AIB market by $1.05 billion and accounted for more than 4 million units of add-in board sales. As crypto miners bought up every AIB produced, the street prices of AIBs rose as much as 30% in the second half of 2017. Gamers voiced their frustration about the lack of available product, and their angst gave rise to products such as Nvidia’s CMP, which were

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