The hot money of digital currency ignited the graphics card market from 2017 to the beginning of 2018. The mining card was hot at the very beginning, and the performance of AMD, NVIDIA and graphics card manufacturers soared. Some graphics card manufacturers' performance in January this year soared 10 times.
After Q2 quarter, such a good day will be gone, the mining card market is down, and graphics card manufacturers are worrying about inventory.
However, AMD, NVIDIA will not miss the market opportunities such as digital currency and blockchain. , AMD blockchain technology director Joerg Roskowetz on the premise that AMD is studying mining with APU processor, this product will soon be available.
Regardless of domestic or foreign companies, decent large companies will not directly participate in digital currency operations, and will not directly issue coins. After all, it is too suspicion to cut leeks, but almost all technology companies are investing in blockchains. I think the blockchain technology is very promising. Ma Yun is promoting the blockchain to change the world.
Because blockchain and GPU are closely related, AMD also pays attention to blockchain technology. AMD blockchain technology director Joerg Roskowetz recently accepted an interview with PCwatch website in Japan. Speaking of AMD's ideas and trends in blockchain and digital currency, it mentions some GPU and ASIC mining machine chips, AMD PSP security technology and APU mining content.
For ASIC chips, it has the advantage of being specific and energy efficient, but the advantage of GPU is that it is more flexible. Joerg Roskowetz said that GPU can be used not only for mining, but also for graphics rendering, and can also run deep learning. .
As for PSP security technology, AMD actually integrates ARM's TrustZone security kernel into the processor. It is not designed for blockchain technology, mainly for enterprise security, but in digital currency, PSP technology is also apparent. Can play its security advantage.
The most attractive is Joerg Roskowetz mentioned the possibility of APU mining, limited to the bandwidth of DDR4 memory, now using APU mining compared to the use of GDDR5 memory or even HBM 2 memory card is no advantage, However, he said that AMD is researching products that can put some of the calculations on the APU processor (CPU side), and products that achieve this goal will appear in the near future.
