Intel recently announced its bitcoin mining chip product Bonanza Mine (BMZ2) at the ISCC conference. According to tomshardware, Intel has secretly shipped and submitted the mining machine to some customers for mining in advance. Now, the computing power and power consumption of the new generation of mining machine have also been exposed.
According to the documents provided by mining company GRIID, the energy consumption of BMZ2 is about 15% stronger than that of Bitminer S19j pro, which is the mainstream in the market, and the price is about half that of competitive products (Intel is priced at $5625). The long-term net profit can grow by more than 130% when the mining difficulty and electricity charge remain unchanged.
GRIID also mentioned that Intel’s ASIC mining machine adopts a fixed pricing strategy, which is different from the pricing strategy based on bitcoin price of mining machine companies such as Bitminer, providing users with a good cost calculation strategy.
In addition, in order to expand its influence in the blockchain industry, Intel also set up a Custom Compute Group on February 11, led by Raja Koduri, senior vice president of Intel in charge of drawing chips.
In addition to the ASIC miner, Intel also launched NFT casting tools and chips. According to the Department, it focuses on optimizing chip energy efficiency. Unlike the traditional miner, it requires a complex cooling system, so the volume will be much smaller than the traditional miner. Moreover, through the tools provided by Intel, the mining machine can also support various functions of blockchain such as NFT casting.
The first public customers of BMZ2 and related chips include Block, Argo and GRIID.
Post time: Apr-01-2022