Intel is finally about to officially enter the "mining" business!
Unlike NVIDIA and AMD, which reversed the graphics card in the past, Intel directly designed a special ASIC, code-named "Bonanza Mine" or "Bonanza Lake", which was born to mine, to be precise, to mine Bitcoin, known as ultra-low voltage and ultra-high energy efficiency.
Bitcoin miner GRILLID also revealed that on September 8, 2021, it signed a purchase agreement with Intel for BZM2 ASIC, making an appointment for supply to Intel 18 months in advance, and the contract will be renewed automatically without objection after expiration.
Although we have always said that it is a "mining card", unlike NVIDIA, AMD graphics card or "mining card", ASIC is just a chip, it is suitable for multiple integrated in a circuit board or a set of systems in a cluster manner, performing large-scale operations, plus dedicated circuits and algorithms, the efficiency is naturally much higher.
Here are the many ASICs inside the WhatsMiner M30S-88T miner:
According to the latest details, the Intel BZM2 ASIC is actually its second generation, but we have never heard of the first generation.
It is manufactured using the Intel 7nm process (now known as Intel 4), with an area of only 14.16 square millimeters (a 300mm wafer can cut up to 4000 pieces), a core frequency of 1.67GHz, a mining power of 137GH/s (that is, 137000MH/s), and a power consumption of only 2.5W, and the hash rate of 1TH/s is only 18W.
25 such chips can be configured into a system, the final force is as high as 3.425TH/s, the power consumption is only 62.5W, and the total supply voltage is only 8.875V, averaging only 0.335V per chip.
This is what Intel calls "ultra-low voltage" and "ultra-high energy efficiency".
Of course, such mining efficiency can shake off the graphics card N light years, of course, for professional mining machines, it is not nothing.
For example, the MicroBT M30S++ mining machine has a single chip computing power of 252GH/s, and the power consumption is only 7.82W, which is manufactured by Samsung's 8nm process.
Bitmain S19j Pro 104T miner has a single chip hash rate of 270GH/s, power consumption is only 7.99W, and the 7nm process of the desktop is manufactured.
You may ask, so why are so many people mining with graphics cards? Because it is cheap, the mining machine is not something that people can afford, and the two singles mentioned above cost more than $13,000 and $11,000.
So, you know why Intel is making miners...
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