INTEL DISCONTINUES BITCOIN-MINING CHIPS
It’s been just a year since Intel officially announced its Bitcoin-mining Blockscale ASICs, but in June the company announced the end of life of its first-gen Blockscale 1000-series chips without announcing any follow-up generations of the chips. The company told our colleagues at Tom’s Hardware that “As we prioritise our investments in IDM 2.0, we have end-of-lifed the Intel Blockscale 1000 Series ASIC while we continue to support our Blockscale customers.”
Intel hasn’t announced any next-gen Bitcoin mining products and its Blockscale ASIC landing pages are now all inactive. Intel’s initial entry into the market for bitcoin-mining chips came at an inopportune time, as its chips finally became available right as Bitcoin valuations crashed at the end of the
