“We expect that our circuit innovations will deliver a blockchain accelerator that has over 1000x better performance per watt than mainstream GPUs for SHA-256 b

“We expect that our circuit innovations will deliver a blockchain accelerator that has over 1000x better performance per watt than mainstream GPUs for SHA-256 based mining,” Raja Koduri, Intel’s senior vice president, explains in the announcement. Nobody cares about mainstream GPUs for SHA-256 based mining; that station was passed nearly a decade ago. The nearest rival would be something like a Bitmain S19 Pro.