Recently, Intel announced plans to contribute to the development of blockchain technology and has developed a roadmap for energy-efficient accelerators. Intel will participate in and promote an open and secure blockchain ecosystem and will help advance this technology in a responsible and sustainable manner.
Intel says they've noticed that some blockchains require a lot of computing power, which can require a huge amount of energy. Intel's customers are looking for scalable and sustainable solutions, which is why Intel is committed to realizing the full potential of blockchain by developing energy-efficient computing technologies.
Blockchain, big computing power, what do you think of when you hear these words? That's right, the kind of card you want.
Intel positions it as a "blockchain accelerator", using the encryption technology, hashing technology, and ultra-low voltage circuit technology that Intel laboratories have studied for decades, which not only has a very small area, but also has extremely high energy efficiency, and the energy efficiency ratio of the mining performance of the SHA-256 algorithm is more than 1,000 times that of mainstream GPU graphics.
More technical details will be announced at the ISSCC International Solid State Circuits Conference later this month.
The product will officially ship later this year, and the first customers include three large bitcoin mining companies, Argo Blockchain, BLOCK (formerly known as Square), and GRIID Infrasturcture.
In order to support new products and promote an open and secure blockchain ecosystem, Intel has also established a new Customer Computing Division (Custom Compute Group), which is part of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Business Unit led by Senior Vice President Raja Koduri.
Previously exposed that Intel's "mining card" is named BZM2, manufactured by Intel 4 process, with an area of 14.16 square millimeters, a core frequency of 1.67GHz, a mining capacity of 137GH/s, and a power consumption of only 2.5W.
25 such chips can form a system with a total voltage of only 8.875V, with an average of only 0.335V per chip.