As bitcoin price crashed down, this crypto bubble burst in the end, which like tech bubble stocks, or like Dot-com bubble.
Mega farm, mega pools will face bankrupt. So, equipment suppliers got no business in future. This market is quite small for
Intel, I believe, Intel won't do any significant development on mining chip.
But, ASIC chip for general sha256 algorithm which can output whole hash value (256 bits), may be needed for network security products
which is a mega market needs.
Mining btc is similar to lottery game. No need to speed big money which is gambling. Bitcoin will drop to $5000, then, $2000 or $1000 in next year.
Intel has developed a btc specific ASIC but has not released it to the public. It is even in articles on their website…
Do you know what an ASIC actually is? ASIC = Application Specific Integrated Circuit… Most companies use them for all different things…. It is a chip developed to do one thing and one thing only. The ones developed for BTC mining cannot be used by network security companies, but ones that use ASIC’s for things like encryption standards, etc are a completely different in the sense of what they are “programmed” to do. Hell your TV at home has ASICs in it…