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Title: AMD, Intel? Post by: wilth1 on October 15, 2014, 09:58:59 PM This seems inevitable if betting on widespread adoption and stabilizing (astronomical) difficulty. Thoughts?
Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: xstr8guy on October 18, 2014, 09:35:32 PM AMD and Intel have much more important things to do with their time and resources. AMD didn't even give a shit when their GPUs were all-the-rage during the GPU mining days.
Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: wilth1 on October 20, 2014, 09:03:32 PM AMD and Intel have much more important things to do with their time and resources. AMD didn't even give a shit when their GPUs were all-the-rage during the GPU mining days. But they are among the most establised, biggest shovel makers... They've only made dirt rakes and trowels, though? Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: xstr8guy on October 21, 2014, 12:21:04 AM AMD and Intel have much more important things to do with their time and resources. AMD didn't even give a shit when their GPUs were all-the-rage during the GPU mining days. But they are among the most establised, biggest shovel makers... They've only made dirt rakes and trowels, though? I'll continue with that analogy, lol. They make all kinds of tools for big mining operations; pickaxes, backhoes, piledrivers, excavators, etc. But I imagine that BTC mining is such a rare yet valueless mineral (by their standards) that there isn't enough money in developing, marketing and selling tools for it. They would rather sell tools at high volume with high margins. And bitcoin mining just isn't lucrative enough. It's just by chance that their CPUs and GPUs were once valuable mining tools. But they probably barely noticed any improvement to their bottom line from the sale of those tools. Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: wunkbone on October 21, 2014, 12:39:42 AM amd and intel might be already secretly mining and selling bitcoin as we speak.
Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: ChuckBuck on October 21, 2014, 03:03:23 PM I think it'd be inevitable if Bitcoin crosses that 100 Billion Market Cap plateau.
It would mean Bitcoin mining as a whole, is a viable business entity, besides the tech, cryptocurrency, and protocol aspect. Who wouldn't want a piece of a pie, if Bitcoin became mainstream in eyes of major tech companies. Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: smolen on October 22, 2014, 03:11:15 AM AMD didn't even give a shit when their GPUs were all-the-rage during the GPU mining days. Tom Stellard of AMD has made more improvements to the AMD R600 LLVM back-end that benefit the performance of Bitcoin mining (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM2MTE)Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: 1echo on October 22, 2014, 03:13:29 AM im for AMD
Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: xstr8guy on October 23, 2014, 12:42:14 AM AMD didn't even give a shit when their GPUs were all-the-rage during the GPU mining days. Tom Stellard of AMD has made more improvements to the AMD R600 LLVM back-end that benefit the performance of Bitcoin mining (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM2MTE)An 18 month old article that was written when GPU BTC mining was about to be made irrelevant by ASIC hardware. They made improvements to already existing GPUs, not develop an entirely new technology. So I don't see how the article that you linked is pertinent for this topic. Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: Muscleminer on October 23, 2014, 08:21:50 AM Topic is too old, but these companys can be interested in BTC i think.
Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: Johanna on October 23, 2014, 12:55:51 PM Well, if amd were to go into this, Im sure they would come out with the best ASIC...
Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: ajw7989 on October 23, 2014, 01:08:37 PM Bitcoin is not big enough for either company to get involved. It was discussed many times even when bitcoin was at $1000. I think back then it was 2-3% of people use bitcoin which is nothing for these companies.
Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: Katarina on October 23, 2014, 01:26:08 PM Bitcoin is not big enough for either company to get involved. It was discussed many times even when bitcoin was at $1000. I think back then it was 2-3% of people use bitcoin which is nothing for these companies. Well, it should be big enough right now. They can even accept bitcoin as a payment.... Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: 1echo on October 31, 2014, 03:08:00 AM i dont think they will as they get many RMAs ;)
Title: Re: AMD, Intel? Post by: Katarina on October 31, 2014, 09:52:01 AM i dont think they will as they get many RMAs ;) They can always reduce the RMA to a month and sell it as a ASIC... |