Category: ASICs

Higher Bitcoin Prices Create Resurrection Of Old Mining Rigs, Outdated Miners See New Life

The price of bitcoin has dipped a hair in value this past week, but the crypto asset is still up 14.4% over the course of the last month. Statistics show…

Bitcoin Miners May Face Major Semiconductor Shortage — Sub-16 Nanometer Chip Costs To Rise By 20%

Fears of a major semiconductor chip shortage have started to make headlines again as the chips power nearly everything from new cars, phones, computers, and a myriad of other items.…

Bitmain To Host Miners In 180-Megawatt Data Center In Kazakhstan

Crypto mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain has partnered with Enegix to host Antminer S19 Pro devices in one of the world’s largest data centers. The facility located in Kazakhstan is designed…

Chinese Mining Exodus Leads To ASIC And GPU Second-Market Surplus And Lower Prices

While bitcoin miners in China have been scrambling, second-hand markets offering cryptocurrency mining rigs from ASICs to GPUs have been exploding with an excess surplus. Additionally, the ASIC manufacturer Bitmain…

Report: ASIC Giant Bitmain Pre-Orders 5nm Chips Produced By TSMC’s N5 Process

Bitmain, one of the largest application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) manufacturers in the world, is reportedly working with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in order to leverage TSMC’s 5nm semiconductors.…

Chinese Lottery Firm Rebrands, Purchases Bitcoin Mining Rig Manufacturer For $100 Million

Following the acquisition of the Chinese mining pool Btc.com, the China-based lottery company 500.com revealed the purchase of a bitcoin mining rig manufacturer Bee Computing. The Shenzhen firm purchased the…