Topic: Could mining come back to CPUs? - page 2. (Read 4120 times)
so you want a part of the processor that specifically does one thing? we have that, it's called ASIC
Very doubtful because GPU is must more beneficial, I could be wrong who knows?
?. GPU is being killed by ASIC. Couldn't whatever is implemented a ASIC chip be put as an add-on into a cpu?
It is not going to happen.
That doesn't convince me. Why is it not going to happen.
You go on to argue that putting implementations of all kinds of hash-functions into cpus doesn't make sense economically. That's not what I suggested.
It is not going to happen.
But CPU's with built-in hashing algorithms have long be thought, however the huge ecosystem of algorithms makes it economically infeasible and pointless.
It simply makes more sense to do it by software.
However, some low-power hardware, such as MCUs with energy-harvesting, will adopt that in midterm. But with low-power usage in mind, and not high-performance.
But CPU's with built-in hashing algorithms have long be thought, however the huge ecosystem of algorithms makes it economically infeasible and pointless.
It simply makes more sense to do it by software.
However, some low-power hardware, such as MCUs with energy-harvesting, will adopt that in midterm. But with low-power usage in mind, and not high-performance.
I've been thinking wether or not a cpu manufacturer could come up with the idea of assigning some die space to putting a bitcoin mining unit on one of their products.
What would be the cost for them and could it be a good-enough feature to increase sales by enough to make it viable?
What would be the cost for them and could it be a good-enough feature to increase sales by enough to make it viable?
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