Intel Discontinues Bitcoin Mining Chip Series, FogHashing had to terminate the co-development

Chipmaking heavyweight Intel (INTC) is ending production of its bitcoin mining chip series. The production of the so-called Blockscale chips was announced about a year ago.

“As we prioritize our investments in IDM 2.0, we have end-of-lifed the Intel Blockscale 1000 Series ASIC [application specific integrated circuit] while we continue to support our Blockscale customers,” an Intel spokesperson said.

Sadly Intel has stopped its mining chip business, actually from February. FogHashing, as Intel’s only R&D partner on liquid cooling mining product, had to terminate the co-development after Intel CEO Pat’s decision.

During our cooperation more than half a year, we spent so much time in their great labs in Santa Clara and Portland with their great engineers, enjoyed the process and learned a lot.