Intel to enter crypto space with blockchain accelerator shipping later this year By Cointelegraph

On Friday, Raja M. Koduri, senior vice president of accelerated computing systems and graphics group at Intel (NASDAQ:), declared their intent to contribute to the development of blockchain technologies, beginning with the introduction of energy-efficient crypto mining accelerators that will be released this year. Previously, Intel had announced it would unveil the next generation of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit mining machines at the next International Solid-State Circuits Conference later this month.

The company would also form a new International Solid-State Circuits Conference within Koduri’s division. It would be responsible for building custom silicon platforms for optimizing blockchain mining performance and the design of supercomputers.