At the time, analysts at GlobalBlock said such initiatives by a $200-plus billion technology company would lead to increased mining efficiency and help more institutional investors to enter the sector and more people to adopt bitcoin because their ESG concerns would be allayed.
ESG, particularly the “E” or environmental part of crypto mining has become one of the main topics of debate in recent times, as miners are rapidly increasing their mining power to stay competitive, which has put their need for energy under the scrutiny of policymakers around the world.
Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a regulation that would require publicly traded companies to report information on greenhouse-gas emissions and risks related to climate change, which would affect miners because of their energy consumption.
The shipments of the new chips will start in the third quarter of this year and Intel hasn’t disclosing the pricing yet.
“Intel’s ASIC can be used in a variety of system designs and environments depending how the designer configures their system.
At first blush, the hashrate of the new chips could be seen as lower than the initial report of up to 135 terahash/second .
The 26 J//TH power consumption of the new chip, however, makes it more efficient than Bitmain’s latest model, the Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd., which delivers a hashrate of 198 TH/s with an efficiency of 27.5 J/TH.
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