Unraveling the Bitmain Antminer X5: A Deep Dive into the New Monero Mine

[FP91G]

I thought randomx algo is asic resistant.looks like nothing resistant to asics.

X5 is not an ASIC, it's a bunch of RISC-V CPUs (SG2042, you can google it) packed together, and they even use DDR4 SODIMM memory sticks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkWGbkJjXa8

This is bad information for miners on processors, because now Bitmain can make ASICs for any coins that need to be mined on processors. Home mining will unfortunately die.
How many SG2042 processors are there in one ASIC?
I just saw 6 processors on 1 board.

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[JayDDee]

This is bad information for miners on processors, because now Bitmain can make ASICs for any coins that need to be mined on processors. Home mining will unfortunately die.
How many SG2042 processors are there in one ASIC?
I just saw 6 processors on 1 board.

It's not an ASIC! It's a cluster of CPUs in one box and it overcomes the final barrier for CPU mining: scaling.
Bitmain disn't do anything special, they're just regular off the shelf CPUs, much simpler that designing and building an ASIC.
If CPU mining appliances catch on (there's another thread about a Pi cluster) CPUs will be better able to compete against GPUs.

[sxemini]

I thought randomx algo is asic resistant.looks like nothing resistant to asics.

X5 is not an ASIC, it's a bunch of RISC-V CPUs (SG2042, you can google it) packed together, and they even use DDR4 SODIMM memory sticks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkWGbkJjXa8

This is bad information for miners on processors, because now Bitmain can make ASICs for any coins that need to be mined on processors. Home mining will unfortunately die.
How many SG2042 processors are there in one ASIC?
I just saw 6 processors on 1 board.

18 CPU´s with 64 cores per CPU and 8 GB Ram per CPU, but as JayDDee wrote, it is not an ASIC, it is Cluster of CPU´s in a ASIC case, but not and ASIC!!!!4

At the moment this miner is locked to Monero and can´t mine other RandomX coins.

[JayDDee]

At the moment this miner is locked to Monero and can´t mine other RandomX coins.

I'm not aware of any other RandomX coins.

About other algos it may be marketing or an unintentional consequence. It just needs the SW to support the cluster
and it can be programmed to do what any CPU can do. It may be just a matter of new FW for the controller to turn it
into a fully programmable CPU cluster. It may even be in Bitmain's plans to sell CPU mining appliances, just speculating.