Biden Loves Intel’s Plan To Produce Semiconductors. What About Bitcoin Mining?
March 03 2022 - 2:27PM
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Intel played a big role in President Biden ’s State of the Union
address. He highlighted the company’s plan to manufacture
semiconductor chips in Ohio, and said, “Make more cars and
semiconductors in America. More infrastructure and innovation in
America.” Was he secretly approving Intel’s plan to produce ASIC
bitcoin miners? Or did he not know that those semiconductors are an
integral part of those machines? Make no mistake, semiconductor
chips or integrated circuits are an integral part of almost every
technological device around you. And Intel is a huge company with
many products and many clients. Those semiconductors Intel is
planning to produce will go everywhere. However, there’s no denying
that ASICs are a big part of the company’s future plans. Recently,
NewsBTC quoted Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger saying: “Intel is about to
bring forward a blockchain chip that’s dramatically better. That is
orders of magnitude better in terms of power performance. So, we’re
helping solve the climate issue.” Exaggerations aside, Pat
Gelsinger was a big part of President Biden ‘s State of the Union
address the other day. What Did President Biden Say About Intel?
One of Biden ‘s big success stories was Intel’s $20B investment in
Ohio. The plant they plan to build will manufacture semiconductor
chips. There’s a global shortage for those, and more than 170
industries depend on them. Nowadays, China, South Korea, and Taiwan
are the main producers of integrated circuits. And those factories
are working full time to fulfill an ever-increasing demand. Enter
Ohio. As The Columbus Dispatch put it: “Intel plans to employ 3,000
workers at an average salary of $135,000. The project is also
expected to create 7,000 construction jobs and 10,000 indirect
jobs.” They also quote President Biden channeling his inner poet:
“If you travel 20 miles east of Columbus, Ohio, you’ll find 1,000
empty acres of land. It won’t look like much, but if you stop and
look closely, you’ll see a ‘field of dreams,’ the ground on which
America’s future will be built.” And then and there, he mentioned
Pat Gelsinger by name, as the man to make it happen. President
Biden didn’t mention bitcoin mining, though. BTC price chart for
03/03/2022 on Bitstamp | Source: BTC/USD on TradingView.com The
U.S.’s Plan To Manufacture Semiconductors The global chip shortage
presents an obvious opportunity, and the U.S. wants to take
advantage of it. Intel´s play is part of a bigger move. In the
article “Bitcoin Mining And The Global Semiconductor Shortage Are
On A Collision Course,” security expert Shinobi informed us: “The
United States Senate has recently passed the “U.S. Innovation and
Competition Act,” which will spend $52 billion dollars on
increasing domestic semiconductor fabrication capacity, and the
“CHIPs for America Act” being introduced in the Senate to create
income tax credit for semiconductor companies.” So, Intel is going
to benefit from all of that. Plus, they´re going to use those
semiconductor chips to aggressively step into the bitcoin mining
business. A business traditionally controlled by Chinese companies
Bitmain and MicroBT. Can Intel compete with them? According to a
recent SEC filing NewsBTC reported on, they can: “When the world
first heard about Intel’s ASIC ambitions, the company cleverly
described the machines as “ultra-low-voltage energy-efficient.” How
efficient will they actually be? Tom’s hardware answers: “According
to the listing, BMZ2’s performance weighs in at 135 TH/s with 26
J/THs of efficiency. Additionally, the miner is roughly half the
cost of a competing Bitmain S19 Pro while being 15% more efficient,
rivaling the best hardware on the market from competing companies.”
To better understand the plan, let’s quote Shinobi once again: “The
dynamics of who can and can’t produce semiconductors in general is
already coming to the forefront of politics as nations realize the
importance of minimizing reliance on foreign actors to maintain
such capacity. It is only a matter of time before how these issues
relate to Bitcoin mining starts to come to their attention as
well.” President Biden And Intel Are Not Playing Around As you can
see, both President Biden and Intel have an ambitious game plan. Is
bitcoin mining a part of the plan? In Intel’s case, the answer is
an obvious yes. On the other hand, Joe Biden didn´t even mention
the topic in his speech. It was always there in the background,
though. At least according to us. Let’s close with another quote
from Biden ‘s State of the Union address: “I have a better plan to
fight inflation. Lower your costs, not your wages. Make more cars
and semiconductors in America. More infrastructure and innovation
in America.” That’s great, but… about that “plan to fight
inflation”… what about stopping the rampant money printing?
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