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Cryptocurrency Ecosystem => Bitcoin Forum => Bitcoin Mining => Topic started by: Pagla on February 02, 2022, 05:48:18 AM
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According to reports, Intel may be planning to unveil a Bitcoin ASIC at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
Intel to enter the ASICs race?
When Bitcoin mining makes headlines it’s most of the time for one of the following reasons:
A country plans to regulate or outlaw Bitcoin mining.
The mining hashrate has set a new record.
Some explainer about the intricacies of Bitcoin mining.
However, a very seldom talked-about feature of mining is its hardware and who manufactures it. Similar to the semiconductors industry, Bitcoin mining components have become a massive business that draws little media attention to itself.
Intel, one of the world’s largest chip manufacturers may be about to change that. According to a post on Tom’s Hardware, the chip giant filed for a patent related to an optimised SHA-256 datapath in 2018. That suggests that Intel is focusing on a Bitcoin ASIC, the kind of specialised hardware needed to mine the cryptocurrency. In fact, Intel may already be working on it. In a YouTube interview with its Graphic Architect Raja Koduri at the end of 2021, information surfaced that suggests as much. Back then, Koduri said that more efficient blockchain validation at much lower cost was a pretty solvable problem for the company and that “hopefully not too far into the future” Intel would “share some interesting hardware for that.”
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