Though the performance of cryptocurrency price is not ideal to the market since the first quarter of 2018, the cryptos, especially bitcoin, still stay at a high price. Miners have been buying a large number of video CARDS or professional mining machines. And a large number of manufacturers have launched new products aimed at faster the mining. Now Intel is going to do the same.
The newest announcement of Intels patent in the United States Patent and Trademark Office(USPTO) displayed that, as early as September 2016, Intel has designed a kind of coins mining hardware accelerators, integrated in the CPU processor. The accelerators have been made special optimization for information summary and information scheduling data channel, and can cooperate with ASIC, SoC, CPU, FGPA and other hardware.
Intel does not emphasize how great the mining performance of the accelerator, but focus on energy efficiency, because now the mining of hardware, software, are forced to perform SHA - 256 endlessly, which cost too much electricity and take up a lot of space in hardware.
Intel claims that its mining accelerator is much smaller and has a high energy efficiency, reducing energy consumption by up to 35% compared with general-purpose processors. (recommend FuninUSA for more product reviews)
Now that the patent has been submitted for a year and a half, and it is now announced again, it looks like Intel's mining machine will soon be available.