Mining prices have continued to remain high, and mine owners have also purchased large quantities of graphics cards or professional mining machines. A large number of manufacturers have launched new products specifically for mining, and they have a slice of it. Now, Intel has to start.
The latest patent issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) shows that Intel designed a bitcoin mining hardware accelerator as early as September 2016, integrated in the CPU processor, optimized for information summarization and information scheduling data channel, and can cooperate with ASIC, SoC, CPU, FGPA. And other hardware work together.
Intel did not emphasize how excellent the accelerator's mining performance was, but focused on energy efficiency. Because of the current mining hardware, the software is endlessly forced to perform SHA-256 calculations repeatedly. It consumes a lot of power and requires a lot of hardware. space.
Intel claims that its mining accelerator has been greatly reduced in size and energy efficiency is extremely high, reducing energy consumption by up to 35% compared to general-purpose processors.
This is undoubtedly very good. It should be understood that mining not only impacted the normal market, but also caused great energy waste.
According to the data, bitcoin, the electricity consumed by Ethereum mining, has exceeded Kuwait, Algeria, Greece, Jordan, Iceland, Libya, and other small countries, ranked 71st in all countries and regions in the world, and completed a bitcoin transaction. Power consumption, available for a mainstream American home for 5.5 days.
Since the patent has been submitted for a year and a half and is now open, it seems that Intel's miner will soon be available.
PS: Although it is April 1st today, this patent is indeed from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the publicity time is displayed on March 29th.
