IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
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IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
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Re: IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
#2“Energy intensive processes, such as cryptomining operations and data encryption, could require significantly less energy and have a smaller carbon footprint.”
Wouldn’t the difficulty just go up such that you’d need to expand the number of computers calculating hashes until the electricity usage again becomes the limiting factor?
Re: IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
#3“Energy intensive processes, such as cryptomining operations and data encryption, could require significantly less energy and have a smaller carbon footprint.” Wouldn’t the difficulty just go up such that you’d need to expand the number of computers calculating hashes until the electricity usage again becomes the limiting factor?
Yeup.
Re: IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
#4“Energy intensive processes, such as cryptomining operations and data encryption, could require significantly less energy and have a smaller carbon footprint.” Wouldn’t the difficulty just go up such that you’d need to expand the number of computers calculating hashes until the electricity usage again becomes the limiting factor?
The best part is that all the old ASICs go in the bin each time a performance improvement is found.
Re: IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
#5“Energy intensive processes, such as cryptomining operations and data encryption, could require significantly less energy and have a smaller carbon footprint.” Wouldn’t the difficulty just go up such that you’d need to expand the number of computers calculating hashes until the electricity usage again becomes the limiting factor?
The best part is that all the old ASICs go in the bin each time a performance improvement is found.
Where are these bins full of ASICs?
Re: IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
#6“Energy intensive processes, such as cryptomining operations and data encryption, could require significantly less energy and have a smaller carbon footprint.” Wouldn’t the difficulty just go up such that you’d need to expand the number of computers calculating hashes until the electricity usage again becomes the limiting factor?
Shouldn't Watson be smart enough to tell them that? Clearly, IBM doesn't dogfood
Re: IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
The best part is that all the old ASICs go in the bin each time a performance improvement is found.
Where are these bins full of ASICs?
https://www.ebay.com/b/Virtual-Currency-Miners/179171/bn_164...
Once a year or so I check on the prices of used miners to see if it would be reasonable to use one as a space heater. Payback period has never been low enough for me to be comfortable with it. (If you buy $300 of equipment and mining becomes illegal tomorrow, then those miners are worthless.)
Re: IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where are these bins full of ASICs?
https://www.ebay.com/b/Virtual-Currency-Miners/179171/bn_164... Once a year or so I check on the prices of used miners to see if it would be reasonable to use one as a space heater. Payback period has never been low enough for me to be comfortable with it. (If you buy $300 of equipment and mining becomes illegal tomorrow, then those miners are worthless.)
Would they become worthless, or would their black market value shoot up?
Re: IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where are these bins full of ASICs?
https://www.ebay.com/b/Virtual-Currency-Miners/179171/bn_164... Once a year or so I check on the prices of used miners to see if it would be reasonable to use one as a space heater. Payback period has never been low enough for me to be comfortable with it. (If you buy $300 of equipment and mining becomes illegal tomorrow, then those miners are worthless.)
mining will never be illegal. at best it will be heavily taxed as a discouragement.
doesn't matter, though; just buy a space heater if you want a space heater.
Re: IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough
#10tl;dr
This all the information:
"With new Vertical Transport Field Effect Transistors, or VTFET, IBM and Samsung have successfully implemented transistors that are built perpendicular to the surface of the chip with a vertical, or up-and-down, current flow."
The rest is marketing.
It is nice to see innovation. I hope they put it in production.