Year: 2019 (page 3 of 3)

Bitmain announces selling date of next-gen Antminer S17 series

The Product Manager of Bitmain’s Antminer 17 series gives users a sneak peek into the features of the new miners which offer “steep improvement” in hashrate.

HONG KONG,  29 March 2019 Bitmain, the world’s top 10 and China’s second largest fabless chipmaker, is putting their new energy efficient miners that mine cryptocurrencies based on the SHA256 algorithm, such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), up for sale globally on 9 April 2019.

The key features of the Antminer S17 include: improved energy efficiency; higher hashrate and size compatibility with the previous S15 series.

The new miners in the 17 series include: Antminer S17 Pro, Antminer S17, and Antminer T17.

Ahead of the new model release, Yangxin, Product Manager of Bitmain’s latest Antminer series, reveals what went into the production of the new and improved 2nd generation 7nm ASIC BM1397 mining chips.

“The new miner offers a steep improvement in the hashrate in terms of space and power consumption,” said Yangxin.

The new chip equipped in the 17 series offers a 28.6 percent improvement in power efficiency in comparison with Bitmain’s previous 7nm chip, the BM1391.

Yangxin has specialized in the field of IC (Integrated Circuit) design for over a decade and currently manages miner production delivery, which includes system design and mass production. Here’s what he had to share on the following:

On the highlight features of the new Antminer S17, Yangxin said:

“There are two key indicators to look for when measuring the quality of a mining machine: efficiency and the hashrate:

The stand out features of the S17 are reflected in the following:

  1. Improved performance compared to the previous generation chip. Improved energy efficiency has a big part to play in this.
  2. Higher hashrate in a single miner. This increases the hashrate density per unit space and saves deployment costs for mining farms.”

On the improvement of the 15 series and the 17 series Yangxin said:

“Electricity bills are very high for Bitcoin mining right now so the improved energy efficiency means a significant drop in costs and, thus, increase in profits. Secondly, the new miner offers a steep improvement in the hashrate in terms of space and power consumption. This will be especially meaningful for mining farms when you consider the investment needed with set up.

On what’s next and whether there is an incentive to develop higher hashrate miners beyond 7nm chips Yangxin said:

“From a technical point of view, there is no end to the development of technology. However, in the short run, the driving force behind the development of next-gen miners beyond 7nm chips is slowing down due to physical limitations.

With the nm size shrinking quantum effects, among other new challenges, come into play. It is promising that TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is already in the process of building 5nm chips. We will continue to follow the development of this technology but it is still early days.  

It takes several iterations to create new miners based on the next generation semiconductor process. The solutions to the challenges of nanometer scale mass production require more investment and further research and development.

Considering the rapid pace of development in this area in the past few years, the industry would soon have to find what the next generation would be. For the near future, 7nm would remain the most preferred in terms of performance and economics.”

The new Antminer 17 series will go up for sale on Bitmain’s official website on 9 April 2019.

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2019’s Focus is on Customers

We are proud of how fast our business has grown since we were first founded in 2013. According to Frost & Sullivan, Bitmain is the second largest fabless chip design company in China and ranked among the world’s top ten in terms of revenue in 2017.

2018 saw significant change and growth for the business. This change and the pursuit of growth has been an important part of our journey. It has enabled us to innovate faster, optimize and streamline our business to rally behind our vision – contributing and enabling the Internet of Money. With these operational changes now in place, the priority for this year is to double-down on innovating for and serving our customers.

Bitmain’s listing application to HKex in September 2018 has reached its 6-month expiration date. We do recognize that despite the huge potential of the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, it remains a relatively young industry which is proving its value. We hope regulatory authorities, media, and the general public can be more inclusive to this young industry. We will restart the listing application work at an appropriate time in the future.

In the meantime, the listing process has made the company more transparent and standardized. The process of rationalization and optimization has made our business more focused on the things that are core to our mission.

As part of this, at the end of 2018 we adjusted our personnel, as we aligned our focus on cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence (AI) chips, as well as products and services based on such chips. It was a difficult but necessary decision as we continue to build a long-term, sustainable and scalable business. We did our best to compensate our employees above the legal requirement.

Since then, we have established clear business divisions for mining hardware, AI, mining farms and mining pools. At the same time, we have integrated the resource lines for chip design, hardware and software to provide more effective support for our key business lines and to allocate premium resources to our major and key projects. These all help to ensure the success of our core business and commitment with our customers through a more robust lifeline and competitiveness.

Aligned to this new operational model, we have also made changes to our leadership. Mr. Haichao Wang has been appointed as CEO of the company. Haichao not only has extensive experience in the chip industry but also succesfully headed-up multiple departments at Bitmain. We are confident that through his experience and passion, he will drive better products and services for our customers. Mr. Micree Zhan and Mr. Jihan Wu, the co-founders of Bitmain, will continue to be our directors to guide the company’s strategic development.

The bear market at the end of 2018 brought both challenges and opportunities that Bitmain will work hard at addressing in 2019. In fact, we have already started with competitive products that meet the needs of our customers.

We recently released the Antminer Z11, based on our 12nm ASIC design, followed by announcement of the Antminer S17 and T17, based on our second generation 7nm chip BM1397. A single BM1397 chip integrates more than 1 billion transistors and features continuous optimization in the circuit structure and low power consumption technology. The energy efficiency ratio of the new chip is as low as 30J/TH, saving energy by 28.6% compared with the previous generation, and its overall performance is more stable.

On the AI side of our business, we have signed cooperation agreements with the Fuzhou Municipal Government of Fujian Province, China Mobile Hangzhou Research and Development Center, and China Unicom Network Technology Research Institute, while rolling out different generations of neural processors, which are fast finding wide acceptance among established tech companies, such as cloud gaming provider Ubitus.

We continue to fund open-source developers, projects and organizations. For those that we see potential and share our vision, we fund them, often with no strings attached. It means a lot to both our community and ourselves, to be able to fund exciting projects, as it gives us the opportunity to bring to life truly transformational technologies. Whilst it is our policy not to disclose our investments in the interests of privacy to those that we fund, it is safe to say we have already funded a great deal and will continue to do so in 2019.

All these contribute towards our mission to produce great hardware and software, as part of our commitment towards the security and stability of a multitude of cryptocurrencies.

We look forward to continuing these efforts for customers this year, and contributing to a distributed, decentralized world that empowers everyone. We hope you continue to have confidence in our future as we embark on this new journey with you!

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Bitmain Releases New Equihash Miner Antminer Z11

Utilizing Bitmain’s all-new ASICs, the Z11 packs three times more hashing power than its predecessor.

HONG KONG, Mar. 19, 2019 – Bitmain, world’s top 10 and China’s second largest fabless chipmaker, officially released the Antminer Z11 today.

The Antminer Z11 is designed by Bitmain to virtually mine cryptocurrencies such as Zcash, which are based on the Equihash algorithm. It is by far the leading model by performance to mine such cryptocurrencies. The new Antminer is now pre-selling on Bitmain’s official website and will start shipping shortly.  

The Antminer Z11 offers a hashing power of 135 KSol/s, which is three times more powerful than that of the Antminer Z9, Bitmain’s previous Equihash miner. With a newly designed internal circuit structure, the Z11 also has a power-efficiency of 10.50 J/KSol, saving 60% of electricity cost compared to the Z9.

The Antminer Z11 uses Bitmain’s latest proprietary 12nm chip, which is made using advanced Bare Die molding technology for better heat dissipation. Even though the Antminer Z11 packs in three times more hashing power than the Antminer Z9, at 5.4 kg, it weighs slightly less than the Z9.

Photo: Antminer Z11

To preserve the Zcash community’s values around security, reliability and accessibility, Bitmain had previously Tweeted real-time updates to ensure more transparency and will continue to provide shipping updates of the first batch of the Antminer Z11. These commitments to transparency will continue to provide the Zcash foundation and community with the security, reliability and accessibility they desire of manufacturers.

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Antminer Firmware Update – February 2019

At Bitmain, security of end users is our top priority and we are committed to ensuring this as new risks emerge. Our team closely monitors the technology ecosystem to identify new and evolving threats. As part of that vigilance, we have recently been made aware by the open source community of a potential vulnerability relating to our firmware. In response, and as a matter of priority, our team has released new firmware updates for the Antminer S15 and Antminer T15 to fix this vulnerability.

Despite our continuous efforts, absolute protection from all possible attacks remains an elusive goal, and therefore, a collaborative effort of the global community is imperative for the strongest defence. We are most grateful to the open source community for continuing to identify and responsibly report new vulnerabilities.

As contributors and users of open-source code, we recognise and respect its ethos. To ensure continued compliance with the requirements of open-source code, we have formed a special team and created new internal procedures.

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Bitmain announces next generation 7nm ASIC chip for SHA256 mining, delivering breakthrough energy efficiency

  • BM1397 chip combines new chip design methodology and world-leading 7nm semiconductor manufacturing process
  • Enables faster and cheaper mining for cryptocurrencies that use the SHA256 algorithm for their Proof of Work (PoW)

HONG KONG, 18th February 2019 – Bitmain Technologies Limited, today announced its next generation 7nm ASIC chip, BM1397, which achieves new feats in performance, chip area and energy efficiency for mining cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), that use the SHA256 algorithm for their Proof of Work (PoW).

The new BM1397 chip requires lower power and can offer an energy consumption to computing ratio as low as 30J/TH. This is a 28.6 percent improvement in power efficiency in comparison with Bitmain’s previous 7nm chip, the BM1391.  To achieve this, Bitmain’s engineering team has thoroughly customised the chip design to optimise its architecture, circuit and economics. The chip is made using TSMC’s 7nm FinFET process.

The BM1397 is a testament to Bitmain’s improvements in chip design methodology and deep understanding of the most advanced semiconductor fabrication technologies.

Today’s announcement follows Bitmain’s on-going commitment to the development of high-performance computing chips and is a part of its aim to help advance the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Bitmain’s innovations enable anyone, anywhere to mine and benefit from cryptocurrencies. The BM1397, part of Bitmain’s growing chip portfolio, is designed to bring a better mining experience and aims to set a new benchmark in ASIC chip technology.

The BM1397 chip will feature in new Antminer models the S17 and T17 that will be announced by Bitmain at a later date.

Founded in 2013, Bitmain transforms computing by building industry-defining technology in cryptocurrency, blockchain, and artificial intelligence (AI). Bitmain leads the industry in the production of integrated circuits for cryptocurrency mining, as well as mining hardware under the Antminer brand. The company also operates the largest cryptocurrency mining pools worldwide—Antpool.com and BTC.com. Bitmain technology supports a wide range of blockchain platforms and start-ups.

 

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Bitmain: Following a busy 2018, what can we expect in 2019?

As we move into this new year, here at Bitmain we’ve been doing a bit of reflecting on what a year 2018 has been, as well as what we expect this coming year.

This past year we have really focused our efforts to accelerate the creation of a platform and environment designed to scale with exponential growth. We want our innovation to enable anyone, anywhere to mine and benefit from new global digital currencies. As we have always maintained, we have made it our mission to ensure the stability and security of digital currency, to foster greater adoption, usage and efficiency.

There have been many major developments including filing our application to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In fact, there are too many to list over the past year and we can often forget about the little things that can make a big difference. As such, we have summarized our most memorable milestones that make us proud.

The 7nm ASIC and Asicboost

In the past year, we launched a number of exciting products and have continued to explore ways to boost mining efficiency. Amongst the many products and software upgrades we launched, a notable one was the new firmware that supports the AsicBoost optimization.

The firmware enables significant savings in energy costs and in addition to the S9, its functionality is available on other BM1387-based models, including the R4, S9i, S9j, T9 and T9+.

But perhaps our greatest milestone of 2018 has been our next generation 7nm ASIC chip, designed for SHA-256 mining. Incorporated into our recently launched Antminer S15 and T15s, the chip provides significant improvements in terms of performance, power consumption and delivering outstanding performance. For the entire industry, this not only accelerates the development of digital currency mining, but also provides miners with a better mining experience.

Bitmain Antminer S15

Sophon (AI)

We’ve been working on AI since 2015 and in Q1 we saw the release of the BM1682, our second chip for AI applications and later we released the BM1880 chip for AI.

We also launched edge computing boards and USB modules to support it. In combination, Sophon products can recognize faces, objects, license plates and even fingerprints, whilst providing AI level security. We are already seeing some of the generational-shifting results from the technology and we can’t wait for what 2019 brings.

Investing in Circle

In May last year, we announced our partnership and lead investment in Circle Internet Financial’s US $110 million Series E round. Circle is a global crypto finance company with a clear mission to change our global economy as we know it. Their pioneering work in creating a tokenized US dollar coin, USD Coin, supported by the CENTRE open source framework is bringing us one step closer to realizing the benefits of the Internet of Money era.

Through our partnership with Circle, we’re also helping advance CENTRE’s efforts to introduce more reliable multiple-fiat backed stable coins, that will provide financial interoperability globally.

Funding open-source developers and projects

We continue to find promising open-source developers, projects and organizations. For those that we find to have potential and share our vision we fund them, usually with no strings attached. It means a lot to our community and ourselves for us to fund projects that get us excited with no-strings-attached because it gives us confidence that those technologies will be available one day. Whilst it is our policy to not reveal who we are funding with how much to respect the individual or organization’s privacy, it is safe to say we already spend a great deal on these and we are looking to do some more in 2019.

The Big Fork

It goes without saying that the BCH and BSV split was a significant topic within the global cryptocurrency space last year. It was exciting to see different passions clash for the future and betterment of cryptocurrencies without the purported “hash war” being fought. Having ourselves been through a similar (but much longer!) conflict over the future of Bitcoin just about 18 months back, we understand the BSV community’s decision to split and freely pursue its own dream. Adoption will come through power, flexibility and sophistication of the ecosystem and we look forward to what 2019 has in store for cryptocurrencies.

Our commitment to transparency

What began as a radical experiment in transparency, with us Tweeting the shipment details of the first batch of our new ASIC-based Zcash miners, led to the formation of our transparency policy, which governs the way we mine and how we communicate with the communities that we operate in. This would not have been possible without the proactive and sincere approach taken by the Zcash community in reaching out to us. We continue to be committed to experimenting with the best ways to communicate and work with the communities in which we operate.

The Bitmain Crypto Index

We recognized that our community of miners, users and investors needed a performance reference point for the largest and most liquid cryptocurrencies. So, in November, we rolled out our institutional-grade cryptocurrency index service. The service publishes performance data both a real-time price every second, as well as a daily reference price at 10:00am Hong Kong Time, on a 24/7/365 basis. We are committed to serving our fantastic community, and this is just one of the ways are doing so.

We expanded stateside

We broke ground on a new blockchain datacenter in Rockdale, Texas, representing a considerable investment into the local, county and statewide economy of the US. This was also followed by a new facility in Washington State. These represent key components of our strategic investment in the US market.

Bitmain Washington Facility

Image courtesy: Bitsonline.com

Houston Rockets!

Antpool Sponsor Houston Rockets

And of course, how can could we forget AntPool’s sponsorship of the Houston Rockets? Who said that mining was all work, no play?

Preparing the company for the future

In preparation for the future, we decided near the end of 2018 that it was time to rationalize our business. Our wide portfolio and varied lines of work have expanded to a point where we have the problem of choice and this year was the time to choose. We started to optimize the business and streamline our flows to focus back on the core missions and activities that best rally behind our vision. We as a company will be lean and more focused towards our goals and we look forward to a 2019 where we can see what our collective efforts can achieve in this manner.

So, what’s the outlook for this year?

While there have been ups and downs in the market, we see this as being part and parcel of the change needed to build a stronger ecosystem. In fact, if we look back, blockchain technology has seen many difficulties in the first decade, and the industry has gone through numerous challenges but has never stopped developing to present day.

While many have commented on the fall in value of cryptocurrencies, we see this as the effects of a stabilizing and maturing market. In fact, we’re beginning to see big name investment institutions coming into the market to provide different digital assets.

We are edging towards an internet of money era, where currencies can move quickly and easily across border without the reliance of traditional institutions. We believe that ASICs will continue to play a fundamental role securing and transforming the complexity of cryptocurrency into useful and trusted assets for everyone.

This year we also anticipate greater adoption of cryptofinance, starting with regulators recognizing the important role cryptocurrencies can play in our financial system and moving away from the sentiment that it is a threat to stability. We most recently saw this when the United Kingdom government proposed giving the financial regulator more power to oversee cryptocurrency assets, as well as the Hong Kong SFC introducing the first set of rules governing the market. Considered regulation can help more people and institutions enjoy the benefit from new global digital currencies.

Blockchain technology has continued developing to present day and has risen above many challenges to get to where we are now. This year, we can expect to see its development gravitate around blockchain applications.

As applications continue to develop, the industry’s market capitalization will fuel growth. Exponential growth in blockchain user traffic will at the same time demand greater data processing capacity, with hardware acceleration and parallel computing technologies being integrated with blockchain, to solve this problem. As a world leading high-performance computing chip company, we believe that there is a significant role for Bitmain to play in meeting this demand and building on its existing innovations such as the 7nm ASIC.

Our mission is to produce hardware and software, as part of our commitment to contribute towards the security and stability of a multitude of cryptocurrencies. We look forward to continuing this effort this year, and contributing to a distributed, decentralized world that empowers everyone.  ---------------------
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