Intel Awarded a Patent for an Energy Efficient Bitcoin Mining Process
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by Jamie Redman
December 2nd, 2018
Excerpt:
On Nov. 27, the world’s second-largest semiconductor chip maker, Intel, was granted a patent for a processing system that mines Bitcoin but utilizes more “energy-efficient hardware accelerators.” According to the patent called the “Optimized SHA256 Datapath,” the newly invented “high-performance” Bitcoin mining process could reduce overall power consumption by 15 percent.
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