Intel News

Intel has declared the end of its first-generation Blockscale 1000-series ASICs for bitcoin (BTC) mining just one year after its official launch.  The company has yet to make any plans for different chip generations public.  According to Tomshardware, Intel, an…

Intel and some of the top high-performance computing facilities in the world are testing quantum computers.

A year ago, buyers could hardly purchase a GeForce GPU at its suggested retail price. The company is now facing the problem in reverse, with Nvidia stating there’s surplus inventory denting their balance sheets. The Company Plans to Lower Prices…

Security experts from Halborn have found an example where a user’s seed phrase of web-based wallet extensions like Metamask was left unencrypted. However, the instance only puts those using the Metamask extension versions below 10.11.3. Some Wallet Extensions Pose a…

Researchers from UT Austin, UIUC, and UW published papers today outlining how malicious players can steal crypto keys on AMD and Intel processors using a side-channel vulnerability attack known as ‘Hertzbleed.’ According to researchers, hackers can steal secret AES cryptographic…

Intel announced through its newsroom the introduction of a new and better ASIC chip for bitcoin mining. This invention comes at a time where more computing power needs arises in the crypto world. Furthermore, the energy consumption by previous chips…

HIVE Blockchain has announced that it has signed an agreement with Intel for the purchase of the latter’s new energy-efficient high-performance Bonanza Mine ASIC chips.

Visa unveiled its newest innovation this week: a trusted execution environment (TEE) that can help induce a fair and just computational layer that maintains privacy and wards off bad actors. According to Ledger Insights, there are a wide range of…

On November 27, 2018, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office accepted a patent submitted in 2016 by the tech giant Intel Corporation for a new energy efficient, high-performance bitcoin mining system capable of outpacing the current model. Energy Efficient Mining…

The nascent world of blockchain-powered virtual currencies keeps getting more irresistible with each passing day and many more firms are looking to have a piece of the ‘cryptocake.’ Intel Corp., the world’s largest manufacturer of personal computer microprocessors, has caught…

On March 28, 2018, American technology giant Intel has filed a patent for a Bitcoin mining “hardware accelerator” to, theoretically at least, improve the efficiency of cryptocurrency mining chips. Cooling Down a Hot Process Records available with the U.S. Patent…

Bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain, is being tested by some of the world’s largest and leading companies including SAP and Intel. Specifically, a rising number of companies are implementing blockchain onto existing infrastructure that handles supply chain, to develop a…

Following the momentum of its enterprise-grade blockchain platform Fabric, Hyperledger is ready to target yet another blockchain project. Burrow, a project proposed by engineers at Monax and Intel, was approved by the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and is currently…

Eight new companies, including Sovrin Foundation, a private-sector international non-profit that was established to govern the world’s first self-sovereign identity network, and Swisscom, a major, state-owned Swiss telecommunications provider, have joined the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger project. The other six companies…

On December 22, four researchers from the Imperial College London and Cornell University, including professor Emin Gün Sirer, released a lightweight trusted execution environment (TEE)-based solution called Teechan, which acts as a high throughput off-chain transaction protocol on top of…

The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project is more than just another blockchain think tank. This initiative also acts as an incubator, where developers can submit their ideas and creations related to distributed ledgers. One of those projects is called Iroha, an…