In the near future, manufacturers of gaming laptops are not threatened with a drop in demand, since cryptocurrency miners have begun to show more and more interest in their products. According to network sources, a shortage of productive graphics cards forced miners in China, Taiwan and South Korea to buy laptops equipped with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series graphics adapters.

The source notes that the lack of RTX 30-series video cards on sale is just one of the factors of the emerging dynamics. Closing the gap in the cost of performance graphics adapters for PCs and gaming laptops has also fueled interest in the latter among miners.

It is noted that in some cases, miners order laptops from manufacturers that combine GeForce RTX 30 series video cards with budget components so that the price gap is even less noticeable. This makes sense, because in the case when the buyer does not plan to play games on a laptop, you can get by with cheaper components, with the exception of the video card. The fact that laptops are used to mine cryptocurrency has been known before. However, trying to buy a graphics card in a laptop that can be said to act as a case is something new.

The source notes that due to the prevailing trend, demand for laptops this year will be higher than initial expectations. Laptop shipments were predicted to decline quarter after quarter during 2021 as the coronavirus pandemic is gradually brought under control. However, in the event of an increase in demand from cryptocurrency miners, the demand for laptops will continue to remain at a high level.

For gaming laptop manufacturers, the challenge is to figure out how best to supply the cryptocurrency mining segment with their products. It’s hard to remember now, but just two years ago, NVIDIA and AMD were faced with oversaturation of the graphics card market due to the downturn in the cryptocurrency market. Therefore, manufacturers can either continue to supply gaming systems further or start producing specialized products focused on mining. Actually, NVIDIA has already taken the first steps in this direction.