I don't think PC gaming should require you to be part of the top 10% in order to fairly price computer hardware between mostly foreign miners buying scores of chips whose primary contribution to society is using 129 TW hours annually and individual users buying a single GPU.
As a selfish American I would rather we arrange for GPUs to be useless to a small number of users buying a large number of GPUS for mining in order for the much larger group of users to be able to afford one GPU.
If this strategy is successful and AMD doesn't follow suit nvidia GPUs will basically be the only ones most people can afford and if mining collapses years later AMD wont have any marketshare left to lose in the consumer space.
The only other way to still get their hardware in front of people who they want to keep a relationship going with will be via privileging OEMs over selling individual GPUs but in fact people are actually buying machines for the GPU and turning over the remaining GPU less machine in the consumer market.
As it stands the whole situation is broken for the only buyers that are sure to be here in 10 years and I would rather it move towards sanity sooner rather than later.
Who knows about 10 years in the future; Perhaps crypto '10x's, and gamers move to cloud platforms. If the prices should be raised, after some years, the added margin will add competitors and increase the efficiency, thus making chips cheaper in the long-term. Anyhow, makes more sense to advocate for silicon subsidies, which helps with national geopolitics as well.
Cloud gaming suffers from inherent issues having to do with latency that are unsolvable. If you place a lot of expensive machines very close to users its not economical and if you put the machines further away from users the latency sucks.
It's likely that PC gaming will spend the next 40 years the same way it spent the last 40 years. It's also immaterial anyway. We need to not kill the PC gaming industry this decade not try to bring it back from the dead like lazarus with tech that may never come through. The same thing is true of using tax payer money to incentivize production of silicon. It may make sense for a number of reasons but its not a solution to I can't buy a GPU now. Making it uneconomical for miners to use gamer cards solves the issue this year. Meanwhile we can subsidize production of silicon in the states and work going "to the cloud" with the gaming industry if it makes sense. It's not an either or.
As a selfish American I would rather we arrange for GPUs to be useless to a small number of users buying a large number of GPUS for mining in order for the much larger group of users to be able to afford one GPU.
If this strategy is successful and AMD doesn't follow suit nvidia GPUs will basically be the only ones most people can afford and if mining collapses years later AMD wont have any marketshare left to lose in the consumer space.
The only other way to still get their hardware in front of people who they want to keep a relationship going with will be via privileging OEMs over selling individual GPUs but in fact people are actually buying machines for the GPU and turning over the remaining GPU less machine in the consumer market.
As it stands the whole situation is broken for the only buyers that are sure to be here in 10 years and I would rather it move towards sanity sooner rather than later.