{"id":59605,"date":"2022-04-05T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T08:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59605"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:47:05","slug":"intel-unveils-new-bitcoin-mining-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/intel-unveils-new-bitcoin-mining-chip\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel unveils new Bitcoin-mining chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/newsroom\/news\/intel-launches-new-intel-blockscale-technology.html#gs.vs3ogv\">announced<\/a> the launch of the second generation of its own <span data-descr=\"special-purpose integrated circuit\" class=\"old_tooltip\">ASIC<\/span> chip for Bitcoin mining called Blockscale.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cBased on years of research and development, this specialized integrated circuit will provide clients with energy-efficient hashing for Proof-of-Work consensus networks,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blockscale will deliver up to 0.58 TH\/s with around 26 J\/TH energy efficiency. A single chain can be assembled from 256 chips, about 148.5 TH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that the nature of the semiconductors used in the technology will enable mass production of Blockscale without threatening supplies of new CPUs or GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>The chip is planned to be available to customers in Q3 2022. Among the first customers Intel named Argo Blockchain, Block, Hive Blockchain Technologies and GRIID Infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Intel <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/intel-unveils-bitcoin-asic-miner-built-on-its-own-bonanza-mine-chip\">unveiled<\/a> its first mining chip Bonanza Mine and a device based on it. The ASIC miner built from 300 chips delivered a hash rate of up to 47.7 TH\/s and an energy efficiency of 55 J\/TH. The figures trailed leading market players.<\/p>\n<p>GRIID was <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/intel-names-customers-for-its-new-bitcoin-mining-chip\">named<\/a> as one of the first customers of the chip. However, in its prospectus, filed with the <span data-descr=\"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SEC<\/span> ahead of the listing, journalists uncovered information about future shipments of ASIC miners with higher specifications.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion concerned <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-claim-intels-bitcoin-miners-have-the-edge-over-rivals\">the prospective purchase of devices<\/a> with a compute power of 135 TH\/s and energy efficiency of 26 J\/TH. On the latter metric, the air-cooled setup was about 15% more efficient than one of the leaders in the sector, Bitmain&#8217;s Antminer S19 Pro.<\/p>\n<p>GRIID did not directly name the supplier, referring to it as the \u201cleading US-based chip manufacturer.\u201d Meanwhile, Intel is the only chipmaker in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in March, HIVE Blockchain <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hive-blockchain-to-buy-bitcoin-miners-from-intel\">announced<\/a> that it had signed an agreement with Intel to purchase mining equipment with expected delivery in the second half of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel announced the launch of the second generation of its own ASIC chip for Bitcoin mining, Blockscale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,736],"class_list":["post-59605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-intel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59607,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59605\/revisions\/59607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}