Ethereum (ETHUSD)

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somewhat off topic. Place holder for ETH players

Bernstein analyst Mark Li said that predicting the semiconductor demand for Ethereum is challenging, but he estimates mining GPU demand may fall about 30% year-over-year if Ether prices and mining margins both stay constant. However, semiconductor demand would increase "very rapidly" if Ether prices continue rising. Should the price rise to $5,000 and miners maintain similar margins, mining GPU demand would more than quadruple, theoretically representing as much as 13% upside to NVIDIA (NVDA) revenue in 2018 and 23% of AMD's (AMD), barring supply constraints, Li estimates. Consensus already appears to model a very sharp decline in NVIDIA's crypto-specific revenues, but clarity on what is in AMD models "is harder to say," Li added. He thinks the impact of Ethereum on TSMC (TSM) and memory makers such as Micron (MU) is negligible, noting that they are exposed to much broader applications and bigger markets.