Intel Patent Filing For Efficient Crypto-Mining Chip Could Reshape The GPU Landscape

Minimalist · Mar 31, 2018

Crypto-currency mining has been disrupting the GPU market for quite a while now. Mainstream graphics cards are selling for significantly more than their suggested retail prices and the most sought-after GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA for mining – like the Radeon RX Vega 64 or GeForce GTX 1070 – often sell for hundreds more than MSRP, if you can find them in stock at all.

A recently revealed patent filing from Intel may change that, however. In a patent filed on September 23, 2016, Intel lays out the details of a Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator. The actual title of the patent, which was posted yesterday to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, is “BITCOIN MINING HARDWARE ACCELERATOR WITH OPTIMIZED MESSAGE DIGEST AND MESSAGE SCHEDULER DATAPATH”.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcoc...o-mining-chip-could-reshape-the-gpu-landscape

Minimalist · May 12, 2018

Cryptocurrency has been great for GPU makers—that might change soon

Nvidia announced its financial results on Thursday, and they were spectacular. For the company's first fiscal quarter—which runs from late January through late April—the company had revenues of $3.2 billion. That's up 10 percent from the previous quarter and up 66 percent over the last year. Profits were even more impressive, rising 11 percent from the previous quarter and 145 percent from a year earlier.

A big reason for this: the soaring value of ether and other cryptocurrencies in recent months created a ton of demand for graphics cards to mine them. That surging demand caused the street price of some high-end graphics cards to more than double between mid-2017 and February 2018.
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018...-great-for-gpu-makers-that-might-change-soon/

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