 In mid-January of 2018, even in rainy days in Shenzhen, the temperature dropped below 10 ℃, and winter in the south came. But Huaqiang North businessman Ding Rui mine business, it is the peak season.He has just completed a 100 mine machine, more than 300 million list.With him, is a Russian, the other from Moscow to come here, After receiving the promise of prompt delivery, the deposit was readily delivered. In Huaqiang North, such businessmen as Ding Rui have become a huge group of people who are sensitively smelling business opportunities in the astonishing rise of digital currencies represented by Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. With the help of the sales and marketing capabilities behind Huaqiang North, National and even global mining machine business big network. In the short span of half a year, Huaqiang North has swept away the downturn in power supplier traders in recent years. The shortage of shops and the rents of rising rents are repeated. Even the gateways of cattle and you are approached from 'Invoice' and 'Mobile Phone' Mobile phone 'into a' mine machine '. In the process of soaring digital currencies, the ups and downs of price figures are the focus of most attention, and there are only a few who are willing to seriously understand how the mines produce digital currencies. But in fact, without the development of mine machines, producers, so far, bitcoin may still be produced by the geeks' laptops when they are free, which means it will not get into the public eye of investment, Will rise astronomical price. Fewer people know that the monopoly of Chinese mining machine production and distribution chain, but also "Made in China" a leading microcosm of the world. We met buyers from Serbia, Russia, India and other countries around the world in Huaqiang North, where we are eagerly looking for the supply of mining machines, but they have no demand for 'inexpensive', which is a seller's market and Chinese sellers dominate The right to speak. Backed by the strong manufacturing infrastructure in and around Shenzhen, 'Made in China' has firmly monopolized the design and production of various types of mining machines in the past few years. The world's top three digital miners, Bit Continental, Jia Nan Yun Chi and Billion state science and technology, covering more than 90% of the world's share - all three companies are founded by Chinese. In the chip industry, miner makers' chip design and development capabilities have become the fastest-growing segments in the specialty chip industry, and top venture capital companies such as Sequoia have also invested in the top performers in the field of mining machines. Now, ambitious miners manufacturers have begun to expand to the field of artificial intelligence, they think they have accumulated in the area of computing power, just to solve the problem of lack of computing power of artificial intelligence chips. The story of mining machines, more than the undulating price of digital currencies, deserves more Chinese companies' painstaking research, and starting with Huaqiangbei, known as' China's electronic first street ', tells the story of the mining machine industry chain. Huaqiang North mutation: everyone is talking about mining machine Enter Huaqiang North landmark SEG Plaza, the floor guide 'mine machine' the word quickly greeted here where the 4th and 5th floor, shop basically occupied by mining machine business. Ding Rui is here earlier business mine business merchants, his original main business is the sale of graphics cards and chassis before the sale of computers, mobile phone business, have changed the line of business, selling mining machine. Some businesses even the original Signs have not changed, the counter directly placed mine machine, used to solicit customers.For them, mad machine and the previous computer hardware is no different, just more tight. SEG Plaza Merchants Manager told "Prism", mine business has risen up, where the rent has risen nearly doubled, but still can not stop the enthusiasm of businesses.Building shortage, for which they decided to use the Spring Festival holiday time, the Some space unreasonable shop re-planning, and then split rent. 'Mining machine to SEG.' The investment manager is very excited, 'Now the international community has formed a reputation!' In the short visit to SEG Plaza, Prism encountered buyers from Serbia, Russia, India, etc. They are looking for the real stock in their hands, the most difficult to purchase is the Chinese-made ant miner And Avalon mining machine.In order to find the right price, they will also be proficient in the use of WeChat, to facilitate the store to have cheaper prices and timely notification. Huaqiang North's favorite business, these international buyers. Ding Rui's experience is: 'They have a clear goal, usually a large amount, and the visa period is limited, so it will be decided soon.' After the miner business is done, there are some new practices on the part of sellers, as some businesses find another way to provide derivative services to attract customers such as miners' custody business, businessmen find stable electricity and space, build mines and buyers buy After the mining machine choose to host, after paying the custodian fee without considering other issues in a hanging 'Asustek Computer' signs of the merchants, the store sales strongly promote this model, and brought the calculator proficient input various figures, demo back cycle. In half a year, the original ex-factory price of about 10,000 mines, has been scrambled to more than 30,000 yuan price, but still in short supply. 'As long as you have the goods, you are the eldest uncle.' One merchant said that in the seriously unbalanced supply and demand market, the second-hand mining machines that some miners eliminated were also the sought after targets. 'For example, ant miner S9, some mines Because of a variety of reasons quit, or bought the latest out of the machine down, one can sell more than twenty thousand dollars. A miner in Sichuan experienced such insanity that he replaced the old miner at the mine site by the end of 2017 and commissioned the merchants familiar with Huaqiang North to sell it. He said: "After spending a year on a used mobile phone, Actually even more expensive than the price I bought. China's first show of strength: the perfect combination of genius and China made To become the country and the world's largest distribution center for mine sales, Huaqiang North behind the support, Shenzhen and the surrounding area is a powerful electronics industry design and manufacturing capabilities. Jinxin, the founder of Mamba video card mining machine, was feeling deeply that in September 2017, he was only determined to enter this industry. He found all the spare parts for mining machines in Huaqiangbei and found the foundry in Bao'an, Shenzhen quickly Put into production, which is not possible elsewhere in the world. The feeling of Jinxin is not an example.Ants miners, which occupy the largest share of the mining machine market, also completed manufacturing and assembly at foundries in Shenzhen, and later transported the mining machines to buyers all over the world through Shenzhen's geographical advantage. The 'Made in China' power represented by Huaqiang North and Shenzhen stunned the entire Bitcoin world after its first shot five years ago, and has since occupied the dominant position in the mining machine industry chain. In June 2012, Butterfly Labs, a unit that claims to be working on an integrated circuit (ASIC) professional mining machine, is likely to control over 51% of the Bitcoin world if it is successfully developed Compromising power also means that the agency can tamper with blocks of Bitcoin and have near full control. 'Bitcoin's free world to be destroyed!' Butterfly across the ocean flap wings, awakened a domestic bitcoin enthusiasts.Also in Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics IC design professional study of Zhang Nan 赓 (coin circle called ' Pumpkin Zhang '), and Jiang Xin-yu from the China University of Science and Technology Junior School (roasted cats), representing China's strength. The pumpkin was widely known as the inventor of the first ASIC mine in the world by the currency ring and named it 'Avalon' and sold to the rest of the world, successfully attacking the butterfly laboratory.Compared with the pumpkin Zhang's' First, "the juvenile Jiang Xin to grilled cats mine machine to achieve a larger-scale production. In July 2012, Chiang Kai-shek, nicknamed "friedcat" ("roasted cat"), launched crowdfunding on the Bitcoin forum bitcointalk. The crowdfunding share was directly transferred to roasted cats and mines shares and anchored with bitcoin Although shares are issued rather than tokens, the process is still viewed by many as the first attempt in China by Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The earliest translator Zhongcong white paper currency legend Wu Jihan put tens of thousands of dollars in research and development of grilled cats and mines succeeded, the investment brought him tens of millions of returns and contributed to the creation of the world after his largest Miner Producer Bit Continent. In early 2013, Avalon miner and roasted cat miner shipments have been shipped, the original challenger butterfly miner in the foreseeable future.In the next few years, despite the roast cat lost, the new overlord rise, but with the help 'Made in China' a sound infrastructure and production capacity, the Chinese forces has since become the unshakable overlord of the mining machine industry chain. Calculations war prequels: the price of bitcoin brought security days However, the idealism of acting as a savior has been pushed into the abyss because of the calculated arms race. In 2013, bitcoin made its debut in front of the world, with a hundredfold increase over the year and a price of up to 8,000 yuan. Early adopters were surprised to find that professional-grade mining machines, like the gold-chickens, can generate huge amounts of wealth Avalon miner and roasted cat miner, the price has been exploded in the market to six figures, still in short supply. Tasted the sweetheart who never want to go back in the past.Nakamoto originally designed for each person to participate in mining using bitcoin to get the balance of bitcoin rewards, was completely broken.China Design, made in China ASIC Professional mining machine, bitcoin in the world after another game of arms race, the 'mining' threshold raised 10 million times.General computer history, priced at 10,000 yuan a set of integrated circuit mine Machine was moved onto the stage. As more and more mining machine makers join in, the bitcoin difficulty each miner can gain in a cramped calculation arms race increases, and who can develop a more calculated mad machine Will receive a large number of orders Moore's Law, the chip upgrade R & D capabilities, the game directly determines the success or failure. LIAO Xiang, CEO of Lightning Intelligence, personally experienced and participated in the arms race of the year.He told Prism that traditional chip makers such as Intel, AMD, Nvidia and so on did not even look down on this business during the bustling years of the industry, The second and third echelon of chip makers, no time to take into account. 'Can be said that in the traditional chip makers for various reasons did not intervene, giving the industry a big window, who can develop the latest chip into production, who will win.' Liao Xiang said. Wu, the early investor in roasted cats, became the biggest winner in this round of arms races, and he and the glittering Zhipuck, a chip expert who met on the street, set up a bitter continent in 2013. The latter developed in half a year Out of the ASIC chip, and in November 2013 this will be called 'Antminer S1' mining machine to market. 'The rise of the bit of mainland China can be said to be timely and beneficial and indispensable.' The same people who had experienced the calculated arms race evaluation, first and foremost the combination of the two founders, were 'Golden partner', because 'Wu Ji understand bitcoin, Zhanke understand chip' industry hasty, this combination is particularly valuable. In addition to being a 'luck' ingredient, the launch of the Antminer S1 is just the time when the bitcoin price surge is the most intense, giving the continent plenty of food and equipment to support the next generation of chip development when it hit a trough in 2014. 'Martial arts all over the world will not break fast. If the price of Bitcoin dropped from 8000 to 800 in the month after the ZIM Group developed an ASIC chip, there may not be any later.' Fierce competition, limited by the chip can carry the calculation of power, many of the miners into the machine has not been manufactured, it faces the risk of elimination. The roasted cats, which once dominated the entire network, also began to fall behind. The second-generation chips of roasted cats fell apart at the crucial moment of bitcoin price hikes in late 2013. Just as it and Avalon collectively defeated Like the Enemy Butterfly Lab, the one-step slowing down at a node with a rapid expansion of power led to more than 20% of the total network catching up rapidly from its peak during the competition from other competitors Down to 4%. After more than a year of hardship, roasted cats on the way to the production line inspection, the mysterious disappearance has become a mystery. Shortcomings of artificial intelligence: computing bottleneck to be broken by the miner manufacturers? Four years later today, the winner of the arms race is bitterly continent, becoming the undisputed king in the bitcoin world, and the bitter continent has a say in more than 70% of the world's ASIC miner market. In the list of the first customers of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), the world's top chip foundry in 2018, the leading domestic manufacturers of 7-nanometer process are in line with well-known manufacturers such as Qualcomm, Huida, AMD and Haisin. Sequoia and IDG admission, valuation of billions of dollars. Developed the world's first ASIC mining machine pumpkin Zhang, nor worse.He led the company Jia Nan Yun Zhi, in the backdoor A-share company Lu Yitong failed to submit the listing of the new three board market applications, and in the new round The financing was valued at Rmb3.3bn According to information obtained by Prism, benefiting from the staggering increase in bitcoin prices in 2017, Kerry Ngoc revenue more than Rmb2bn in 2017, mostly from mines Machine sales. And this figure corresponds to only 30 people R & D team. After monopolizing the global mining market, the two companies found new excitement: With the accumulation of computing power in bitcoin mining machines, they can replicate their experience to the world's forefront of artificial intelligence - the field of artificial intelligence. Jia Nan Yun Zhi an introduction, in the realization of the elements of artificial intelligence, the algorithm is generally the most valued part of the calculation has been neglected.In algorithm, the chip makers AMD and NVIDIA through their design and production of graphics cards (GPU) for advanced learning, but after many years of accumulation and development, the algorithm has matured, computing elements become the biggest shortcomings that restrict artificial intelligence. 'Why some artificial intelligence robots can not stand upright? The root cause is still calculating, 'said the source. On the chip level, bit Wei Wei, director of product strategy at Continental China, predicts that bitcoin mining chips have gone through the process of going from CPU to GPU to ASIC-specific chips. Similarly, artificial intelligence chips will repeat itself from CPU to GPU and then to ASIC process. 'GPUs as the representative of the graphics processor to promote the wave of the first wave of artificial intelligence ... but with the development of the industry, with the maturity of the deep learning algorithm, as the architecture continues to evolve rapidly, by 2020 dedicated chips ASIC) will exceed the number of GPU chips. Bit mainland released the AI-based chip brand 'CountFeng' in January 2018. The related actions of Jia Nan are also in full swing. 'This is an opportunity in the field of chips that China is getting closer to or even surpassing the United States. Wang Jun, director of AI product technology, said excitedly at the launch ceremony of Bit Continent's Computex. But this time, the two companies are facing quite a strong opponent team.Google, AMD, Nvidia and other top players, both in research and development funding support, or in the accumulation of technology and data, should not be underestimated. Senior observers in the field of artificial intelligence point out that because algorithms for artificial intelligence training may change, training data and ecology are not in their own hands, he expresses his concern about the back road. However, he also saw the positive side. The two companies chose the most experienced ASIC direction as the force that has been nurtured in the blockchain ecosystem and launched an attack on traditional chip makers. Those foundries in Shenzhen and Huaqiang North businesses should be looking forward to the market as soon as possible when the mine-led technology-led 'Made in China', product sales, no one will miss the price war every day 'cottage Machine 'era.
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