There is if you are in for the long run,for me this coin is Raptoreum as they have an awesome development team behind them
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Once they build the assets which are next so different programming languages can be used to build apps over this network which by the way is ASIC resistant as they change algo I think we can see the price of Raptoreum greatly increase.
That's nice to know. Can you use Intel CPU to mine them profitably right now? Or is there another bottleneck that a faster CPU doesn't really matter for the hash rate/profit?
And when they do come out they won't be competing with today's CPUs, they'll competing with Zen6
so expectations need to be moderated in assessing their impact on mining.
Yeah, I heard TSMC will also start producing mass N2 chips in 2025, likely coinciding with when Zen 6 arrives[1]. It doesn't offer a lot of density increase compared to their 3nm process if I understood it correctly but still gives a 10-15% performance/watt boost. Not sure how it will translate to hash rate power though.
Then we had a big jump to the RX series which was 16nm if I recall and I assumed it would be at least another decade when we broke the 10nm barrier but I guess technology advances pretty quickly.
I think one of the reasons is that manufacturing companies define numbers differently. IIRC, Intel claims its 10nm process is comparable to TSMC's 7nm[2], its 7nm is comparable to TSMC's 3nm[3], and so on. Basically, nanometer numbers in a vacuum don't mean much, Intel/TSMC or others can simply change the name and voila, we break another nm barrier. CMIIW.
[1]
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-says-it-will-make-ultra-advanced-2nm-chips-by-2025[2]
https://www.granitefirm.com/blog/us/2021/12/28/tsmc-process-roadmap/#:~:text=Intel's%207nm%20transistor%20is%20237.18,TSMC's%205%2F4nm%20of%20171.30[3]
https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1375053390661705729