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China Bit mainland will launch the new ether ether mining machine, TSMC and memory plant will benefit
Author Atkinson | Posted on February 12, 2018 15:59 | Category Fintech , GPU , Processors

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Science and Technology Daily News] [Technews encryption because although recent currency Bitcoin price breakouts, become the subject of investor sell-off, but it made money for the encryption of new business opportunities, related investment so far still in the ascendant. A few days ago, foreign media reported that Terry Gou, president of Hon Hai Group, will invest in the world's first commercial bank of cryptocurrencies. Recently, a new type of cryptocurrency mining machine will be launched soon. This type of mining machine will appear larger memory, lower energy consumption in the market, which will also bring more business opportunities for foundry leading TSMC and related memory manufacturers.

Bitmain in China is among the market leaders in the mining machine market. Not only in the global mining machine market share as high as 80% to 90%, the monthly net profit also reached 30 million US dollars, but also by virtue of its huge demand for mining machine market, to design bitcoin, Litecoin ASIC and other mining ASIC chip, making the bit mainland China has leapt to China's top five IC design firms, but also contribute to the TSMC nearly 10% of total revenue.

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Bitmain S9 designed by Bit Continent is currently the main type of machine that is specially designed for the mining of Pittcoin. However, since the hash calculation adopted by bitcoin is mainly based on the SHA-256 algorithm, it not only consumes computing power but also consumes energy. In addition, as the number of bitcoins in the future becomes more and more scarce, The harder it is, the bitter continent begins to develop its own ether for the future.

It is understood that the ethernet ETHASH algorithm used, originally designed for the memory bandwidth (band width), which is the demand for graphics chips. So it is suitable for PC mining, mining machine is not good at this. However, because Ether is likely to adopt a PoS proof of stack model by mid-2019, which will make the current mining machine more difficult to enforce, the continent will start designing a new type of mining machine, To meet after the market demand.

According to "Science and Technology News," the exclusive grasp of the news, bit mainland China is about to launch mining for the Eupean F3 models, the design is to increase the DRAM bus bandwidth, but also to increase the size of the memory. In the future, each miner has three mainboards, each with six dedicated ASIC processors for mining, and each dedicated ASIC processor for mining features 32 1Gb DDR3 memory. In total, there will be 72 GigaByte of DRAM memory on a F3 miner, which is significantly different in memory size compared to the current S9 miner with bitcoin only 512 MB of DDR3 memory.

Market estimates, because the F3 of small energy consumption, great benefits, the future will be the formal introduction of the future, will impact the original graphics chip PC mining market. Also optimistic about such a market, the recent frequent bit mainland China to Taiwan to meet the memory plant, to discuss whether it can provide the relevant memory capacity. It is understood that the demand for this part of the bit continent is about the amount of 3 thousand 12-inch wafers per month. In this part, the current domestic memory factories are still trying to squeeze out the production capacity supply. As for the TSMC chipmaker that will be handed over to TSMC's foundry 28nm process, it will be mass-produced and shipped in February, while the bitcoin-based mining machine in the mainland of the continent is expected to ask Q2 and Q3 of 2018 .