Intel introduced the Bitcoin mining chip and miner power 3600 Tue – Bits Media

Intel introduced the Bonanza Mine chip for Bitcoin mining and a miner with the capacity 3 600 Tue, however, judging by the specification, presented at the ISSCC conference, the device turned out to be ineffective.

According to Tom's Hardware, Intel BMZ1 chips are chips in FCLGA package dimensions 7 x 7.5 mm with 132 contacts. At the same time, the dimensions of the chip itself are only 4.14 x 3.42 mm, which allows you to produce up to 4 000 chips on one wafer. The chips are built on a technical process 7 nm and have each 258 mining cores, operating at frequencies from 1.35 GHz up to 1.6 GHz. They consume approx. 7.5 Watts and provide hashrate 137 Gh / s. In this way, chip efficiency is approx. 55 J/tx.

Simultaneously with the presentation of the chips, Intel also presented its own device for mining Bitcoin with 300 BNZ1 chips. The device consumes 3 600 Watts of energy at hashrate in 40 Th / s. For comparison, The water-cooled Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd miner presented in mid-January consumes 5 445 Watts at hashrate 198 Th / s. Its effectiveness reaches 27.5 J at Terahesh, which is exactly twice as efficient as Intel BNZ1 chips.

It is still unknown, Will Intel supply BNZ1 chips for customers to self-produce ASIC miners?, or it will supply them with already assembled devices. However, the accompanying documentation contains instructions for using BNZ1 chips in your own systems.

During the presentation, Intel representatives emphasized, that the development of the second generation of mining chips is already underway, which should “surprise everyone” with their technical characteristics. Previously, Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger spoke about the extreme energy efficiency of chips. maybe, he referred specifically to the second generation of BNZ chips.