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Keep in mind, though, that the constraints for Bitcoin mining are a lot different. The Bitmain chips are far smaller than the NVIDIA ones to increase yield, so
by TD-Linux 9y ago
Keep in mind, though, that the constraints for Bitcoin mining are a lot different. The Bitmain chips are far smaller than the NVIDIA ones to increase yield, so the absolute chip counts will be higher but NVIDIA is probably still ahead in terms of area shipped (latency is totally unimportant so no reason to have gigantic chips).
- thephyber 9y agoFor those that don't know, BitMain's miners are compact servers with an ARM processor and almost 190 SHA256-specialized ASIC chips: > the S9, which had 189 of the company’s BM1387 chips [1] [1] https://news.bitcoin.com/chinese-bitcoin-miner-might-be-trying-to-corner-asic-chip-market/ https://news.bitcoin.com/chinese-bitcoin-miner-might-be-tryi...