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the "AS" in ASIC stands for Application Specific. SO these machines are made to specifically mine bitcoin, other ASICs do other jobs, but individual units cann
by celticninja 7y ago
the "AS" in ASIC stands for Application Specific.
SO these machines are made to specifically mine bitcoin, other ASICs do other jobs, but individual units cannot transfer from one job to another and cannot be re-purposed.
- kragen 7y agoRight, the ASIC in your DVD player that does MPEG-4 decoding is useful for something other than Bitcoin mining. But it's not useful for Bitcoin mining at all. Similarly for a motor-controller ASIC, an HDMI encoding ASIC, a GPRS radio ASIC, and so on.