Energy efficiency is a top design priority when it comes to the tech giant’s mining solutions.
Intel to enter crypto space with blockchain accelerator shipping later this year
On Friday, Raja M. Koduri, senior VP of accelerated computing systems and graphics group at Intel, declared their intent to contribute to the development of blockchain technologies. This begins with introducing energy-efficient crypto mining accelerators to be released this year. Previously, Intel had announced it would unveil the next generation of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit mining machines at the next International Solid-State Circuits Conference later this month. The company would also form a new International Solid-State Circuits Conference within Koduri’s division. It would be responsible for building custom silicon platforms for optimizing blockchain mining performance and for the design of supercomputers alike. In addition, the firm believes that its circuit innov...
