There are now a wide variety of ASICs that can operate in multitasking mode. The Bitmain Antminer X9 is built on server-grade RISC-V processors, including Sophgo SG2044 chips and 64 XuanTie C920v2 cores. Antminer X5 is based on Sophgo SG2042 chips - 64 XuanTie C910 cores. Officially OT here... Those are not ASIC's - they are high performance computers using multiple high end CPU/GPU chips with a sizable amount of DRAM which is why they can be programmed to run multiple algo's. You seem to have forgotten that what an Application Specific Integrated Circuit is: It is a chip designed to do one thing and one thing only, for mining that means it has the logic required to process the SHA256 algorithm using logic gates hardwired to do that. ASIC's being dedicated SHA-256 data processors vs general purpose processors is why they are so bloody efficient. They look at a data string fed to the inputs and in 1 clock cycle spit out a yes/no reply to it. CPU's & GPU's shift data around according to their program performing several operations to manipulate it and require many clock cycles before spitting out an answer. The firmware in an ASIC-based miner sets up a SOC that only formats the data going to/from the chips and handles a few other functions such as handling network coms, clock frequency and setting Vcore used. There's no need to be pedantic; many well-known resources and people write "ASIC" out of habit. Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) is an ASIC miner designed for RandomX algorithm, Technically, the correct word to use is "Miner," as it appears on the official website, but in colloquial speech, it's usually referred to as ASIC to avoid confusion.
There are now a wide variety of ASICs that can operate in multitasking mode. The Bitmain Antminer X9 is built on server-grade RISC-V processors, including Sophgo SG2044 chips and 64 XuanTie C920v2 cores. Antminer X5 is based on Sophgo SG2042 chips - 64 XuanTie C910 cores. Officially OT here... Those are not ASIC's - they are high performance computers using multiple high end CPU/GPU chips with a sizable amount of DRAM which is why they can be programmed to run multiple algo's. You seem to have forgotten that what an Application Specific Integrated Circuit is: It is a chip designed to do one thing and one thing only, for mining that means it has the logic required to process the SHA256 algorithm using logic gates hardwired to do that. ASIC's being dedicated SHA-256 data processors vs general purpose processors is why they are so bloody efficient. They look at a data string fed to the inputs and in 1 clock cycle spit out a yes/no reply to it. CPU's & GPU's shift data around according to their program performing several operations to manipulate it and require many clock cycles before spitting out an answer. The firmware in an ASIC-based miner sets up a SOC that only formats the data going to/from the chips and handles a few other functions such as handling network coms, clock frequency and setting Vcore used. There's no need to be pedantic; many well-known resources and people write "ASIC" out of habit. Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) is an ASIC miner designed for RandomX algorithm, Technically, the correct word to use is "Miner," as it appears on the official website, but in colloquial speech, it's usually referred to as ASIC to avoid confusion.

There are now a wide variety of ASICs that can operate in multitasking mode. The Bitmain Antminer X9 is built on server-grade RISC-V processors, including Sophgo SG2044 chips and 64 XuanTie C920v2 cores. Antminer X5 is based on Sophgo SG2042 chips - 64 XuanTie C910 cores. Officially OT here... Those are not ASIC's - they are high performance computers using multiple high end CPU/GPU chips with a sizable amount of DRAM which is why they can be programmed to run multiple algo's. You seem to have forgotten that what an Application Specific Integrated Circuit is: It is a chip designed to do one thing and one thing only, for mining that means it has the logic required to process the SHA256 algorithm using logic gates hardwired to do that. ASIC's being dedicated SHA-256 data processors vs general purpose processors is why they are so bloody efficient. They look at a data string fed to the inputs and in 1 clock cycle spit out a yes/no reply to it. CPU's & GPU's shift data around according to their program performing several operations to manipulate it and require many clock cycles before spitting out an answer. The firmware in an ASIC-based miner sets up a SOC that only formats the data going to/from the chips and handles a few other functions such as handling network coms, clock frequency and setting Vcore used. There's no need to be pedantic; many well-known resources and people write "ASIC" out of habit. Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) is an ASIC miner designed for RandomX algorithm, Technically, the correct word to use is "Miner," as it appears on the official website, but in colloquial speech, it's usually referred to as ASIC to avoid confusion.

There are now a wide variety of ASICs that can operate in multitasking mode. The Bitmain Antminer X9 is built on server-grade RISC-V processors, including Sophgo SG2044 chips and 64 XuanTie C920v2 cores. Antminer X5 is based on Sophgo SG2042 chips - 64 XuanTie C910 cores. Officially OT here... Those are not ASIC's - they are high performance computers using multiple high end CPU/GPU chips with a sizable amount of DRAM which is why they can be programmed to run multiple algo's. You seem to have forgotten that what an Application Specific Integrated Circuit is: It is a chip designed to do one thing and one thing only, for mining that means it has the logic required to process the SHA256 algorithm using logic gates hardwired to do that. ASIC's being dedicated SHA-256 data processors vs general purpose processors is why they are so bloody efficient. They look at a data string fed to the inputs and in 1 clock cycle spit out a yes/no reply to it. CPU's & GPU's shift data around according to their program performing several operations to manipulate it and require many clock cycles before spitting out an answer. The firmware in an ASIC-based miner sets up a SOC that only formats the data going to/from the chips and handles a few other functions such as handling network coms, clock frequency and setting Vcore used. There's no need to be pedantic; many well-known resources and people write "ASIC" out of habit. Bitmain Antminer X9 (1M) is an ASIC miner designed for RandomX algorithm, Technically, the correct word to use is "Miner," as it appears on the official website, but in colloquial speech, it's usually referred to as ASIC to avoid confusion.