Wednesday, January 31st 2018
Samsung Enters Volume Production of a Killer Crypto-mining ASIC
One of the world's largest SoC, DRAM, and NAND flash makers, with its own semiconductor fabs, Samsung, is eyeing itself a large slice of the crypto-currency mining craze. The company reportedly entered volume production of a highly efficient crypto-currency mining ASIC, for an unnamed client from China. The client has placed a gargantuan order for crypto-coin mining ASICs contract-manufactured by Samsung, which appears to be targeted at Bitcoin, for now.
China's largest mining ASIC solutions providers, Bitman and Cannan, have similarly contracted TSMC to manufacture mining ASICs. An ASIC (from a mining context) is a single-chip solution that combines a CPU, a SIMD parallel-processing component tailored for mining, memory, and storage. It has infinitesimally smaller PCB, power, and thermal footprints compared to PCs with GPUs, and can be deployed in extremely large numbers for mining on an industrial-scale.
Source:
DigiTimes
China's largest mining ASIC solutions providers, Bitman and Cannan, have similarly contracted TSMC to manufacture mining ASICs. An ASIC (from a mining context) is a single-chip solution that combines a CPU, a SIMD parallel-processing component tailored for mining, memory, and storage. It has infinitesimally smaller PCB, power, and thermal footprints compared to PCs with GPUs, and can be deployed in extremely large numbers for mining on an industrial-scale.
46 Comments on Samsung Enters Volume Production of a Killer Crypto-mining ASIC
He who controls banks controls food, energy, war, "education" (indoctrination), news, infrastructure and thus people with strokes of the pen.
It's a bit dark, but I dont believe there will ever be a parallel monetary system which they do not control.The US hasn't been backed by gold since 1971. We have been using fiat currency (monopoly money) for decades.
With that said, sadly it is a far superior system to cryptocurrency.
Gaming is not a waste of energy and resources because ______________________________________.
The worst that will happen is a PoW change.My numbers in my experiment currently indicate that after labor hours, I am making $10.00 per hour of labor. I should be working at McDonalds. What relative ease?I don't believe that will always be the case. I strongly believe we are in an embryo stage as to what crypto is to become.How is it a fairy tale? If I want to transfer money in bitcoin and I sign the transaction, how can the "big banks" stop it? Answer: They can't.
Easy. Legislation.
Have a good evening.
Not a fan of "Sweet Swine" (pineapple + ham) pizza...and durian sounds 100x worse. I'll pass, thanks but no thanks.
That said, the concept of cryptocurrency is pretty dumb.
Back to the article, it wouldn't take much to modify these SOC's to do other cryptocurrencies. This is what the world needs for cryptocurrency mining. Far more cost and resource effective.
Besides the fact that that will never happen. There's that too.
Samsung does not know Mining isn't ECO friendly?
There will always be people doing criminal activities. A typical, average citizen will conduct their lives according to law.
Legislation rules all my friend and that is something they can easily pass if they deem it a necessary.
And you represents all of us because you are a typical citizen like us. Only a fraction of people participate in criminal activities.
Apart from the fact, that, when I ordered one in the US 13 years ago, it tasted like garbage.
I don't even know HOW they managed to get a pizza (which is just ham and ananas in addition to the basic margherita components) wrong
Apart from that. Who cares about mining. In my opinion it is just baseless bullshit. The worth of a currency is equivalent to the trust people set in it that it has that worth. And I don't trust crypto at all. So to me it is worthless.
plenty of other foods have an extra 'kick' by adding a sweet element (not that pineapple is particularly sweet...) like sweet & sour sauce, cranberry sauce (north american thanksgiving meals), some appetizer/main salad with oranges or berries, etcart & play are important for the psychological development of the human mind, not to mention most other animals (play specifically)
i'm not saying max ultra settings super overclock plastic LEDs everywhere gaming, i'm saying the concept of an electronic video game