No but it drives enough of the ones with liquid capital to pump and deplete supplies to affect the market. The supply disruption was nothing more than hoarding to drive get rich quick schemes, it sort of worked. It's having untold ripples that will eventually manifest, can't keep kicking the can down the road forever. It's going to affect sales of next gen cards for sure, they panicked and in order to entice people to consume product, they made them more powerful(and also more energy hungry). This is to entice them away from the cheap surplus that's about to flood the market, and into new product. After all the GPU manufacturers got their money well in advance.