Will we see AMD dedicate a portion of CPU die area to hashing units?

[Carlton Banks]

Possibly better in Mining Speculation, but what the hey.

This could make real sense, what with motherboard manufacturer ASRock's (abortive) attempt at adding mining features to the landscape of mainstream components. AMD have been floundering away to Intel in the x86 market for nearly 10 years now. A move like this could generate some fightback, as those that don't want to go all-out mining equipment could take a toe-dip style investment that just so happens to function as a PC/laptop as it's primary purpose. Bitcoin flops? Not a problem, computer is still functional.

The AMD silicon fabrication spin-off compnay Global Foundries has just begun to take on 3rd party ASIC production for companies like Cointerra and Bitmine.ch. I wonder how long these co-incidents could take to spark such a development off.

And it would be good for mining decentralisation too, especially if an all-in-one p2pool implementation could be crafted to work in a simple to setup fashion for such a hardware device. Or Intel could possibly get there first, who knows....

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[dairymaid]

I saw this and I decided to do a search for "AMD asic"
and found this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=136914.0
It would be nice if a larger company could get into
the ASIC market and make it more accessible. Wouldn't
it be healthier for Bitcoin if the unmined coins were
mined by a large number of people instead of a
few?

[goxed]

I saw this and I decided to do a search for "AMD asic"
and found this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=136914.0
It would be nice if a larger company could get into
the ASIC market and make it more accessible. Wouldn't
it be healthier for Bitcoin if the unmined coins were
mined by a large number of people instead of a
few?

+1 we either need OpenASIC or pubASIC. This monopolization is not good IMO.

[woodsandhillsplc]

Seems like AMD have missed the boat in terms of what they could have done for bitcoin mining. They were always the dominant/best mining GPU manufacturer - but from what I can see didn't seem to even notice, let alone do anything awesome for the community...

[dairymaid]

+1 we either need OpenASIC or pubASIC. This monopolization is not good IMO.
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Ill have to read about those. AMD is pretty open source friendly too right?
It would be very interesting to see the difference in hashing power of a large number of people with smaller miners
vs a company with a few large miners. If mining equipment was more accessible then there would be incentive to write software that is more accessible as well.

Sometimes I feel like all the different elements that Bitcoin need to really expand are waiting for each other to make
a move I think AMD has been doing triage and damage repair the past few years