Intel Announces Details of First-Gen Bonanza Mine Cryptomining Asic
Intel reveals that the Bonanza Mine-asic can achieve a hashrate of 40TH/s. The crypto mining machine is powered by BMZ1 chips, but the company is already selling asics with an undisclosed second-generation mining chip.
The first generation Bonanza Mine-asic consists of 300 BMZ1 mining chips, spread over 4 hashboards, Tom’s Hardware reported after a presentation by Intel at the ISSCC 2022. Each individual chip is roughly 14.16 square millimeters in size. Intel uses such a minuscule format because it allows greater yields in production and a higher die density on the actual wafer. The BMZ1 chips are baked at 7nm, although it is not clear who the actual producer is.
An entire Bonanza Mine-asic with a power of 3600 watts could achieve a computing power of 40 terahash per second. According to Tom’s Hardware, this is below par when compared to prominent competitors; the Bitmain Antmienr S19j Pro has a hashrate of 104TH/s with a power of 3068 watts. The S19j XP, the manufacturer’s latest model, achieves 140 terahash per second at 3010 watts.
Intel already announced at the initial unveiling that it wanted to make an energy-efficient asic. Multiple profiles are available to customize the power consumption and associated hashrate. Meanwhile, new versions of the Bonanza Mine are already equipped with BMZ2 chips. It is not known whether the further developed BMZ1 chips have radically different specifications. For now, Intel only sells the mining asics to partners, including Argo Blockchain, Jack Dorseys BLOCK and GRIID Infrastructure.
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