特定应用集成电路（ASIC）芯片构成了比特币（BTC）采矿业的骨干

ASIC机器是为了一个目的：尽可能快地解决比特币的SHA-256算法以收集块奖励。

Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips are the backbone of the bitcoin (BTC) mining industry. The machines are made for a single purpose: To solve Bitcoin’s SHA-256 algorithm as fast as possible in order to collect block rewards.

特定于应用的集成电路（ASIC）芯片是比特币（BTC）采矿业的骨干。这些机器是出于一个目的：尽可能快地求解比特币的SHA-256算法以收集块奖励。

They’re extremely good at it. One of the most widely used ASIC machines, the Antminer S19, is capable of making 82 trillion computations per second — 820 times the number of stars in the Milky Way.

他们非常擅长。使用最广泛的ASIC机器之一Antminer S19能够每秒进行82万亿个计算，这是银河系中恒星数量的820倍。

The $30 billion ASIC manufacturing market is dominated by Bitmain. The Chinese company’s machines power roughly 80% of Bitcoin’s hashrate, according to TheMinerMag. But Singapore-based bitcoin mining firm Bitdeer (NYSE: BITD) intends to shake things up with the release of a new ASIC chip architecture.

300亿美元的ASIC制造市场由Bitmain主导。根据Theminermag的说法，这家中国公司的机器大约是比特币的哈希雷特的80％。但是总部位于新加坡的比特币采矿公司Bitdeer（NYSE：BITD）打算随着新的ASIC芯片架构的发行而动摇。

These new chips could bring a huge jump in efficiency, the company claims, while improving transparency in the ASIC manufacturing process.

该公司声称，这些新芯片可能会带来巨大的效率，同时提高了ASIC制造过程中的透明度。

“The two dominant players [Bitmain and MicroBT] are both private companies, and very opaque,” Jeff LaBerge, head of capital markets and strategic initiatives at Bitdeer, told CoinDesk in an interview. “They don’t really engage with the media or give any type of guidance about what they’re doing from an R&D standpoint, and that makes it very difficult for end-buyers to plan.”

Bitdeer资本市场和战略计划主管Jeff Laberge在接受采访时告诉Coindesk：“ [Bitmain和Microbt的两个主要参与者都是私营公司，而且非常不透明。” “从研发的角度来看，他们并没有真正与媒体互动，也没有为他们所做的事情提供任何类型的指导，这使得最终购买者很难计划。”

“We want our customers to know where we’re at in our manufacturing process, what our roadmap is in terms of new chip designs, where we’re at in our production cycles.”

“我们希望客户知道我们在制造过程中的位置，在新芯片设计方面的路线图以及我们在生产周期中所处的位置。”

Shanon Squires, chief mining officer at bitcoin hosting firm Compass Mining, told CoinDesk that increased visibility into ASIC production would help miners plan new hardware shipments and make it easier to predict Bitcoin’s difficulty growth. “Bitdeer’s commitment to transparency is great for the mining industry,” she said.

比特币托管公司Compass Mining的首席矿业官Shanon Squires告诉Coindesk，Coindesk对ASIC生产的可见性将有助于矿工计划新的硬件运输，并使预测比特币的难度增长变得更加容易。她说：“比特尔对透明度的承诺对采矿业非常有用。”

“While Canaan discloses its annual sales volume for various mining models, Bitdeer takes it a step further by providing more frequent delivery volume updates,” Wolfie Zhao, head of research at TheMinerMag, told CoinDesk. “Although both are smaller players in the hardware market, their efforts show good faith in promoting transparency. Hopefully, this will encourage the larger market incumbents to take note.”

Theminermag研究负责人Wolfie Zhao告诉Coindesk：“尽管Canaan披露了各种采矿模型的年度销售量，但Bitdeer通过提供更频繁的交付量更新，将其进一步发展。” “尽管两者都是硬件市场中较小的参与者，但他们的努力在提高透明度方面表现出了真诚的信心。希望这将鼓励较大的市场现任人注意。”

Seeking efficiency

寻求效率

ASIC chips have used mostly the same blueprint since 2014. Over the last decade, the biggest increases in ASIC power efficiency have come at the foundry level, as leading global chipmaker TSMC has refined its manufacturing process. While miners have also made alterations to chip design, such modifications have only brought incremental gains.

自2014年以来，ASIC芯片主要使用了相同的蓝图。在过去的十年中，ASIC功率效率的最大提高是在铸造级别上的，因为领先的全球芯片制造商TSMC已完善了其制造过程。尽管矿工也对芯片设计进行了更改，但这种修改只带来了增长的收益。

Even so, progress has been tremendous. The very first ever ASIC, Canaan’s Avalon (2013) had a power efficiency of 6,000 joules per terahash (J/TH). Bitmain’s Antminer S21XP Hydro, the current most efficient machine on the market, boasts 12 J/TH efficiency.

即便如此，进步还是巨大的。 Canaan的Avalon（2013）是有史以来的第一个ASIC，其功率为6,000 Joules，每Terahash（J/Th）。 Bitmain的Antminer S21XP Hydro是市场上最有效的机器，具有12 j/th的效率。

Bitdeer, which is listed on Nasdaq, wants to create a completely new architecture for its ASICs. “We feel like it’s going to be necessary to break into what we call the single-digit efficiency range,” LaBerge said, referring to mining rigs with less than 10 J/TH in efficiency.

纳斯达克省列出的Bitdeer希望为其ASIC创建一个全新的体系结构。 “我们觉得有必要闯入我们所谓的单数效率范围，”劳勒（Laberge）指的是，效率低于10 j/th的采矿钻机。

Scaling up with the traditional blueprint means using progressively thinner chips. But thinner means chips are more likely to be defective and yields per batch tend to fall. “You’re also competing with Apple and Nvidia and some of the biggest companies in the world for the same materials,” LaBerge said.

用传统的蓝图扩展意味着使用逐渐稀薄的芯片。但是更薄的意味着芯片更有可能有缺陷，并且每批趋势往往会下降。 Laberge说：“您还与Apple和Nvidia以及世界上一些最大的公司竞争相同的材料。”

Bitdeer’s Chief Strategy Officer, Haris Basit, is leading a team of engineers to create a new framework. Some members of that team worked on designs found in Bitmain's first ASIC chips back in 2014 — the chips whose architecture became the standard across the industry. (Bitmain did not respond to a request for comment.)

比特尔（Bitdeer）的首席战略官哈里斯·布斯特（Haris Basit）领导一支工程师团队创建一个新的框架。该团队的一些成员从2014年Bitmain的第一个ASIC芯片中发现的设计进行了研究，这些芯片的建筑成为整个行业的标准。 （Bitmain没有回应置评请求。）

Bitdeer’s research has already had successes. The company’s most recent product, the SEALMINER A3, achieved a power efficiency of 9.7 J/TH during performance trials, the firm reported on Monday. That means the A3 — which still uses the traditional ASIC blueprint — could end up taking the efficiency crown from the S21XP Hydro.

Bitdeer的研究已经取得了成功。该公司周一报道，该公司的最新产品Sealminer A3在绩效试验期间达到了9.7 j/th的功率效率。这意味着A3（仍然使用传统的ASIC蓝图）最终可能会从S21XP Hydro中夺取效率冠。

Yet the miner’s SEALMINER A4, which will employ the firm’s new chip architecture, is expected to consume 5 J/TH. It will likely be the most efficient ASIC machine on the market by a significant margin.

然而，将采用该公司新的芯片建筑的矿工密封器A4预计将消耗5 j/th。它可能是市场上最有效的ASIC机器。

"People have known for a long time that you could recycle [the electric] charge on a chip, but no one's really been able to figure out how to do that in a way that allows for high performance… We've cracked the code on how to do this in a very high performance application," Basit told the Coin Stories podcast in December.

Basit告诉Coin Stories Podcast，“人们很长一段时间以来都知道您可以在芯片上回收（电动）充电，但是没有人能以一种允许高性能的方式弄清楚如何做到这一点……我们已经在高性能应用程序中对此进行了有关如何执行此操作的代码。”

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