Intel ASICs, coming to a mine near you

[atp1916]

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At the very end of the article, an important little tidbit:
Last year also Intel joined hands with a Chinese firm, Tencent for blockchain solutions.

Thoughts?

 

[cdabc123]

Won't be very profitable if atall.

 

[mkrohn]

bitmains profit comes from running the hell out of the machines before selling them to end users. Intel can't handle this model. Bitmain has massive operations in parts of china that people can't live in but do for peanuts a day. If a company like Intel tried to do something like this they would have the wrath of millions of liberals coming down on them. Bitmain doesn't make their money from the hardware...

 

[Derfnofred]

Or, you know, using block chain to validate financial transactions. Would make a whole lotta sense that Intel wants in that world.

 

[mkrohn]

it depends on how they do it really. If this just ends up being some kind of extension to the CPU architecture like quicksync, MMX, AVX or any of those other technologies that were nothing more than instruction sets for the CPU yeah it can help give them edge or catch up to AMD since they have more cores and cache which are better for this kind of thing Intel is kinda falling behind in the crypto world.

 

[Darksieg]

Posted on April 1 ? April fools ?

nvm

Patent here