[2014-05-13] Intel fabbing BTC mining chips

[goxed]

https://plus.google.com/+MarcBevand/posts/9waJsLiMXfZ

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So it looks like Intel is developing Bitcoin mining chips! Presumably an exploratory R&D effort, but still, wow.

"Intel factories, the documents suggested, were responsible for at least two generations of 21 bitcoin mining chips,
 a 0.57 w/GH 22nm FinFET chip (codenamed CyrusOne)
 and a 0.22 w/GH 22nm chip (codenamed Brownfield).

[LiteCoinGuy]

So it looks like Intel is developing Bitcoin mining chips! Presumably an exploratory R&D effort, but still, wow.

"Intel factories, the documents suggested, were responsible for at least two generations of 21 bitcoin mining chips, a 0.57 w/GH 22nm FinFET chip (codenamed CyrusOne) and a 0.22 w/GH 22nm chip (codenamed Brownfield).

Though Intel has so far kept its relationship with 21 quiet, the bitcoin startup took the opposite approach in its company overview, which included a screenshot of an email allegedly from Intel CEOBrian Krzanich. Dated 5th September, the email finds Krzanich informing Pauker and investor Marc Andreessen of his opinion on a proposal to distribute bitcoin mining chips in consumer electronic devices."

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pretty big news, cool stuff 

[bitbouillion]

So it looks more like 21 Inc uses Intel's foundry services and Intel did not design the chips.

Older thread about 21 Inc formerly known as 21e6:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=334759.0