News Intel To Unveil Bitcoin-mining 'Bonanza Mine' ASIC at Chip Conference

[Admin]

Intel will unveil its ultra-low-voltage energy-efficient Bitcoin-mining "Bonanza Mine" chips at the ISSCC chip conference in February.

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[-Fran-]

Well, if they make the GPU prices to go down, I think everyone won't be mad? I wonder how much capacity they would dedicate to this though.

Regards.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Well, if they make the GPU prices to go down, I think everyone won't be mad? I wonder how much capacity they would dedicate to this though.

Regards.

It won't have any impact on GPU prices. There is no overlap between the crypto that could mined with a bitcoin/SHA-256 ASIC and crypto that can be mined (profitably) with a GPU.

 

[Eximo]

Other than increase them, those chips have to be made somewhere.

 

[sivaseemakurthi]

Please crash the crypto market, please!

 

[logainofhades]

They should make an Etherium one, to give us gamers a break.

 

[InvalidError]

They should make an Etherium one, to give us gamers a break.

With ETH allegedly going PoS only a few months from now and the difficulty bomb that comes with it, the market for PoW miners would dry up about just in time for launch. Designing a whole new product for a fad that should be end-of-life doesn't make much sense.