What is Intel's second-gen Bonanza mine (bzm2)?

However, A recent SEC filing by one of Intel's premier partners has revealed both the pricing and performance of Intel's second-gen Bonanza Mine (BZM2) Bitcoin miners. According to the listing, BZM2's performance weighs in at 135 TH/s with 26 J/THs of efficiency.

Is Intel's bitcoin-mining 'Bonanza mine' going to market?

News of Intel's Bitcoin-mining 'Bonanza Mine' chips originally filtered out without much fanfare via a listing for a tech conference presentation. Soon after, the discovery of an IPO filing by GRIID, a Bitcoin mining company that's among Intel's first customers, revealed some of the details of Intel's go-to-market strategy.

What is a Bonanza mine ASIC?

Intel solders on 75 Bonanza Mine ASICs per hash board, arranged in 25-deep voltage stacks with ganged stack-voltages. The hash board also houses a microcontroller that manages power-on and thermal/stack-voltage monitoring. A 10MB/s UART serial link shuffles data between the chips and the control unit that sits atop the full system.

What is bzm1 & bzm2?

This material covers the first generation of Intel's mining chips, known as BZM1, but the company has already moved on to its second-gen 'Bonanza Mine' ASIC, known as BZM2, that it is now making available to customers to challenge the likes of Bitmain and MicroBT.