AMD Blockchain Technical Director: APU processor for mining is coming soon

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 first time, and the performance of AMD, NVIDIA and graphics card manufacturers soared. Some of the graphics card manufacturers' performance in January this year soared 10 times. After Q2 quarter The good days are gone, the mining card market is down, and the graphics card manufacturers are worrying about the inventory.

However, AMD, NVIDIA will not miss the market opportunity of digital currency, blockchain, AMD blockchain technology director Joerg Roskowetz on the premise that AMD is studying mining with APU processor, this product will soon come out. Domestic or foreign companies, decent large companies will not directly participate in the operation of digital currency, and will not directly issue coins. After all, it is too suspected to cut the leeks, but almost all technology companies are investing in blockchains, they think 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 interviewed Japanese PCwatch website and talked about AMD's ideas on blockchain and digital currency. And trends, which mentioned 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 is no advantage compared to the use of GDDR5 memory or even HBM 2 memory card, but he said AMD is studying Products that put some of the calculations on the APU processor (CPU side), products that achieve this goal will appear in the near future.

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