Tech giant Intel received a patent patent and trademark office (USPTO) decision on the energy efficiency of the mining of cryptocurrencies on the SHA-256 algorithm.
Since this algorithm is used for the production of the first cryptocurrency, the invention of the American company called “Optimized data feed SHA-256 for energy saving vysokoeffektivnoi mining bitcoins”.
According to the description of Intel, the company developed the system of micro-architectural optimizations for specialized ASIC chips for BTC mining, which reduces the required number of calculations. Compared to existing chips, the power consumption can be reduced by 15%, estimated by the company.
“Embodiments of the present invention use micro-architectural optimizations, including selective binding hardware-specific parameters when calculating the mining bitcoins”, — the document says.
The use of a patented Intel solution may prove very timely, against the background of falling prices of bitcoin miners EN masse switch off the equipment due to operation at a loss and sell it. Video card manufacturers state the drop in sales of products for cryptocurrency mining — according to the Susquehanna company, the profitability of GPU mining Ethereum closer to zero.
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