"We expect our semiconductor innovations to deliver a blockchain accelerator with over 1000 times better performance per watt than regular mining GPUs based on the SHA-256 algorithm," said Raja Koduri, Intel's senior vice president at Intel. ad. referring to SHA-256 hashing. algorithm used to generate Bitcoin and a number of other cryptocurrencies. It is worth mentioning that nowadays no one uses SHA-256 mining equipment based on GPUs, this approach being replaced for many years with dedicated ASIC Miner equipment, already passed through several generations. In other words, the leap in performance of the new Bitcoin mining equipment with Intel chips will not be nearly 1000x, but we can expect a decisive advantage in terms of energy efficiency, motivating a new upgrade cycle for Bitcoin miners, very profitable for Intel as a hardware vendor.