It seems that Intel has secretly worked on the development of a chip or a similar solution, which makes it possible to make Bitcoin mining more efficient, not only in obtaining coins, but also energetically, something necessary.

Cryptocurrency mining has become very popular and now the large manufacturers in this industry are working on powerful and innovative solutions that allow mining more efficiently. It seems that one of the companies that does not want to lose the potential of this industry, is Intel, who would have developed and for whatever reason, filed a patent on the idea of ​​a solution that would serve to accelerate the Bitcoin mining hardware in the market.

Such a tool was called 'Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Message Digest and Message Scheduler Datapath', which was released in September 2016, an idea that is not really new. This solution seems not to have been neglected, despite the fact that at the time it was indicated that the company had put it aside and had no interest in it, they have worked on this technology, doors within Intel.

Intel's idea would be to develop a chip, which allows increasing the efficiency of Bitcoin mining, thus increasing energy efficiency. The document states that 'because the software and hardware used in Bitcoin mining use brute force for various occasions and perform SHA-256 functions, the Bitcoin mining process can be very energy intensive and use large amounts of space. hardware. The realizations here are described to optimize Bitcoin mining operations, in order to reduce the space required and the energy consumed by the Bitcoin mining hardware '

Intel seems to have set out to develop an efficient solution for mining that reduces the energy requirement to mine Bitcoin by 35%, which could be applied to ASICs, SoCs, CPUs and FPGAs. This technology is very interesting and would make Bitcoin mining more energy efficient, since at the moment it is one of the main problems in this industry.

Source: TPU