Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This?

Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by nootropicat on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:48AM (#16753096)

The only relevant figures I know of are from mining bitcoin. [0].

>A related approach is programmable asics. I've heard this was researched decades ago

What do you mean, if not fpgas?

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Re:Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This? by hyperpallium on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:02AM (#16753378)

thanks.

wait, we're looking at 18,000,000 Mhash/s vs 2568 Mhash/s Like... 4 orders of magnitude?

And, 11,000 Mhash/J vs 3 Mhash/J, over 3 ordera of mag, just like you said.

yah, fpgas

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