AMD and Nvidia performed wildly different during the 2018 crypto crash — here's why (AMD, NVDA)

When the 2018 crypto crash rocked the cryptocurrency-mining industry, shares of the chipmakers Nvidia and AMD performed wildly different. 
Nvidia got hit hard in 2018 while AMD managed to post big gains.
One reason is that Nvidia is a pure graphics processing unit player, whereas AMD sells both GPUs and central processing units, an analyst said.
There's a lot of optimism that AMD will gain market shares from Intel, he added.
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When the 2018 crypto crash rocked