Hardware Google The end of Moore's law forced YouTube to make its own video chip YouTube now controls its hardware roadmap By Shawn Knight , August 26, 2022, 11:15 AM 12 comments
Hardware Intel starts shipping its Bitcoin mining rig as cryptocurrencies crash Good job guys By Isaiah Mayersen , July 2, 2022, 11:21 AM 28 comments
Hardware Industry Intel launches second-gen Blockscale ASIC for Bitcoin mining The silicon giant says it won't affect CPU and GPU manufacturing By Adrian Potoroaca , April 5, 2022, 11:16 AM
Hardware Industry Intel unveils 3,600-watt ASIC Bitcoin mining rig The company's first mining rig is capable of up to 40 terahashes per second By Adrian Potoroaca , February 21, 2022, 12:44 PM 27 comments
Industry Bitmain places orders for 5nm mining chips with TSMC Could it impact production of other 5nm chips? By Rob Thubron , May 7, 2021, 6:55 AM 7 comments
Industry Intel acquires eASIC to diversify beyond CPUs New hybrid of FPGAs and ASICs to be built using shared intellectual property By Greg Synek , July 13, 2018, 8:40 AM
Industry Hardware Facebook is hiring a team to design its own custom microchips Mentions of AI, compression, and video encoding applications By Greg Synek , April 19, 2018, 10:46 AM
Industry Bitcoin mining rewards cut in half to curb inflation By Shawn Knight , July 11, 2016, 10:30 AM 8 comments
Hardware Industry Ex-NASA chief's neural computing startup reveals 256-core processor and voice recognition system By Rob Thubron , June 7, 2016, 10:00 AM
Hardware Google Google built its own processor to power machine learning By Shawn Knight , May 19, 2016, 7:30 AM