First the market was too small.
Now, there is a market, but too risky. Be sure that the conversation has occurred over at AMD.
Once there is a stable market of sufficient size, you will see the entry of established operators.
Topic: Why aren't AMD, Intel, Nvidia, etc. interested in ASICs? - page 2. (Read 2563 times)
All of the big companies have long term plans around sustainable growth and stable business models. ASICs for bitcoin mining has not remotely evolved into that biosphere. For the time being it is mainly get rich quick rapid development to marketing/release new hardware companies the likes of which we may not see for more than a year or two. Down the track if/when bitcoin mining reaches some kind of evolutionarily stable set, you can bet these companies will be there front and centre.
They've probably got some group in their vast orgs working on it just in case. I bet for both sha256 and scrypt. They'll never let on though. Big companies usually have people working on all sorts of stuff in secret that outsiders never hear about. Some of these pan out. Most are discarded.
For example we now know that Nokia was working an Android version for years. They have now released it. Google's famous floating datacenter has been outed. Stuff like that.
For example we now know that Nokia was working an Android version for years. They have now released it. Google's famous floating datacenter has been outed. Stuff like that.
Also the OP suggests they have the 1 resources, 2 ability to design, and 3 infrastructure to create an ASIC chip or finished product. That's seems like a far fetched assumption to me.
Just my 2 satoshis.
Just my 2 satoshis.
You're kidding, aren't you? All 3 of those companies have 1, 2, and 3. I'd say it's an uncertain market, that's definitely 1 reason the majors don't get involved. Also market size. AMD and nVidia might have a little interest, if they were sure the market would last a few years. Intel would consider the market way too small, even if they could have 100% of both sha256 & sCrypt sales. They probably make way more on just their LAN chipsets.
ASICs will be the realm of small, fly-by-night companies for quite some time. Notice how quick the prices drop? What successful company wants that?
I would suggest that they weren't involved or paying attention when the ASIC was innovated.
I would also not be surprised to see them move into the space. Especially, my opinion here, when the alt-coins die away due to side-chains.
Also the OP suggests they have the 1 resources, 2 ability to design, and 3 infrastructure to create an ASIC chip or finished product. That's seems like a far fetched assumption to me.
Just my 2 satoshis.
I would also not be surprised to see them move into the space. Especially, my opinion here, when the alt-coins die away due to side-chains.
Also the OP suggests they have the 1 resources, 2 ability to design, and 3 infrastructure to create an ASIC chip or finished product. That's seems like a far fetched assumption to me.
Just my 2 satoshis.
They didn't have to change anything they were doing, nor did they need to advertise when scrypt blew up.
If they were really smart, they would create an altcoin with a gpu prioritized algorithm and pump the shit out of it for a few months
Well amd at least.
If they were really smart, they would create an altcoin with a gpu prioritized algorithm and pump the shit out of it for a few months
Well amd at least.
Market too tiny.
Why chase less than 1 billion revenue when you pretty much own 90% of all CPU market worth 10s of billions.
Why chase less than 1 billion revenue when you pretty much own 90% of all CPU market worth 10s of billions.
One thing I can think of is that the market is tiny.
Because they certainly had (and still have) the resources and infrastructure to design and fabricate them. Instead, the mining scene is dominated by newer, less established companies that were all formed after Bitcoin was launched like Butterfly Labs, Avalon, BitFury, ASICMiner, AntMiner, etc. with the older semiconductor companies like Intel and AMD practically ignoring it.
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