Intel hardware mining accelerator

[NumLock21]

A patent has been revealed, showing Intel has filed a patent for a hardware mining accelerator. Current method of mining consumes a lot of power, for Intel's approach,

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In the filing, it appears it's Intel's intent to create a chip that could augment the existing Bitcoin mining process by increasing energy efficiency. As they themselves put it, "Because the software and hardware utilized in Bitcoin mining uses brute force to repeatedly and endlessly perform SHA-256 functions, the process of Bitcoin mining can be very power-intensive and utilize large amounts of hardware space. The embodiments described herein optimize Bitcoin mining operations by reducing the space utilized and power consumed by Bitcoin mining hardware."

And no this is not a April Fools topic.

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/242867/intels-bitcoin-mining-hardware-accelerator-patent-filling-published

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20180089642.PGNR.&OS=dn/20180089642&RS=DN/20180089642

[Nicnac]

very interesting. Really curious about this, will it be a pcie card?

[Levent]

Just now, Nicnac said:

very interesting. Really curious about this, will it be a pcie card?

most likely, I would expect it to be something like their computational pcie cards.

[Coaxialgamer]

So.. An asic ? 

[Nicnac]

2 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

So.. An asic ? 

yes but intel. such efficiency, very hash

[Ginger_]