According to experts from Bitfury – the development of bitcoin miner performance has stopped and will not go further

The company manufacturer of parts for asic miners has reached a peak in the development of its equipment. Alexei Petrov – aka Cio Bitfury – personally informed ForkLog about this at one of the meetings dedicated to the topic of halving: how the division of currencies can affect technology and price.

He believes that Moore’s Law is no longer valid for processors (and other chips). The main reason for this is the unprofitable cost of developing and producing parts with higher performance, which can only be achieved by compacting the number of transistors on the board.

According to him, the latest generations of 3nm and 5nm technologies exist insofar as the size of the crystals themselves still allows, but they are already very close to the maximum marks. Even with the 3nm size, no one will give a guarantee that the width will be such relative to which 3 electrons can hit at once. For this reason, the chip (transistor) itself is not a fact that will give stable work without failures, while the complexity of creating such technologies, along with the cost of them – too high. But the need for such equipment and its continuous development, in terms of profitability – is growing every day.

Such a small size for a chip is a big inconvenience for engineers in their work, and huge limitations – that’s what Bitfury’s it-director thinks.

However, it is possible that new technologies will open up new horizons that have never been explored before. Fundamentally fresh ideas could solve this problem – such as: chips working through chemical reactions, or due to optics, also possible developments based on electromagnetism are not excluded. But to date, such theories have not been tested, and remain only speculation of scientists about possible prospects in the development of this industry.

The range of Bitfury’s work is wider than chip production. The team of scientists is also engaged in optimizing Asic-ovs themselves, and the ventilation system for them.

Despite all of the above, Petrov saw the other side of the coin – greater availability of new Asic models for mass consumption. This is despite the fact that the technology has reached its maximum development today. What can’t be said about old-generation miners, which were rapidly evolving, thus becoming obsolete with each new generation.

IT director Bitfury emphasized that further improvement of miners is impossible – but this is compensated for by the large-scale production of devices in large volumes. When the market is full – there is availability in purchase for all categories of customers. From those who mine – to those who would like to heat their homes in this way.