THELOGICALINDIAN - Last anniversary the Californiabased technology aggregation Intel explained its intentions to advance crypto mining semiconductors that would advertise 1000x bigger achievement per watt Now Intel has appear added capacity about the Bonanza Mine BMZ1 blockchain accelerator dent at this years International SolidState Circuits Conference ISSCC
Intel’s Bonanza Mine Crypto Chip Products Introduced at ISSCC
Information apropos Intel’s new crypto mining accelerator dent has been appear to the public, according to assorted letters accoutrement 2022’s ISSCC event. On February 12, Bitcoin.com News reported on Intel’s intentions to ability blockchain accelerator chips as Intel controlling Raja M. Koduri declared Intel’s goals.
Intel’s presentations at ISSCC appear the “Bonanza Mine” (BMZ1) accelerator, but Tom’s Hardware columnist Paul Alcorn explained that Intel is already alive on a second-generation “Bonanza Mine ASIC, accepted as the BMZ2.” Alcorn’s analysis addendum that Intel declared how it accumulated 300 chips into a “powerful 3,600W miner that delivers up to 40 [terahash per additional (TH/s)] of performance.”
The BMZ1 leverages a 7 nanometer (nm) action and the admeasurement is an almost “7 x 7.5mm exposed-die FCLGA package.” Alcorn says that while the BMZ1 is a 7nm process, it doesn’t accord abounding capacity on the action node.
“Each dent die measures 4.14 x 3.42mm, for a absolute of 14.16mm^2 of silicon, so these are analogously baby slivers of silicon,” the address appear by Tom’s Hardware explains. “The abate die admeasurement improves crop and maximizes dent breadth acceptance (up to 4,000 die per wafer), appropriately allowance aerate assembly accommodation (though it does crave added dent dicing/packaging capacity).” Alcorn’s BMZ1 arbitrary adds:
Intel’s blueprint are not as abstruse as Bitmain’s contempo mining rig barrage announcements. For instance, in mid-November 2021, Bitmain appear the Antminer S19 XP that boasts 140 TH/s. At the end of January this year, Bitmain announced the barrage of an alike stronger bitcoin mining assemblage alleged the Antminer S19 Pro Hyd. and the close claims that anniversary assemblage produces 198 TH/s.
Intel already has orders from firms attractive to advantage the new BMZ1 and BMZ2 accelerators stemming from company’s like Griid, Argo Blockchain, and Jack Dorsey’s Block (formerly Square). An S-4 filing stemming from Griid does not acknowledgment the BMZ1 but the filing does altercate the chip ambit artefact called BZM2
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