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 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 interviewed PCwatch in Japan and talked about some of AMD's ideas in blockchain and digital currency. 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.