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Cypherpunk launches Zcash mining fleet controlling 18% of network hashrate
The $33.3 million Winklevoss Capital deal expands Cypherpunk’s ZEC strategy as it targets 5% ownership of the cryptocurrency’s circulating supply.
Infineon launches the world's largest power semiconductor and analog/mixed-signal chip wafer fab.
Mars Finance reports that Infineon announced the official opening and commissioning of its Smart Power Fab in Dresden, Saxony, several months ahead of schedule. The project, with a total investment of €5 billion, is Infineon's largest single investment in history. With the new factory in operation, Infineon's production capacity at its Dresden site will double, making it the world's largest production base for smart power semiconductors and analog/mixed-signal technologies. (Cailian Press)
ABTC, a Bitcoin mining company backed by the Trump family, increased its holdings by 500 BTC.
Odaily Odaily reports that American Bitcoin (ABTC), a Bitcoin mining company backed by the Trump family, has increased its holdings by 500 BTC, bringing its total Bitcoin holdings to 8,000. (BTCtreasuries)
Blackstone quietly abandons world's largest data center project; AI infrastructure boom encounters real obstacles.
Mars Finance reports that Blackstone Group's QTS has decided to withdraw from the Digital Gateway data center project, which was originally planned to become the world's largest data center campus. This move comes just days after Blackstone sold three data center assets in Virginia for $3.5 billion. A recent poll by the US polling firm Gallup found that 70% of Americans oppose building AI data centers near their homes. (Cailian Press)
SemiAnalysis founder: AI inference market may surpass oil to become one of the world's largest markets.
According to BlockBeats, on July 1st, Dylan Patel, founder of SemiAnalysis, stated in a recent interview with Sequoia Capital's podcast "Training Data" that AI inference will become one of the world's largest markets, potentially exceeding the size of oil and accounting for several percentage points of global GDP. He believes that with each iteration and upgrade of the model, the number and value of tasks that can be completed expand faster than the growth of computing power, thus the computing power shortage may persist for a long time. Patel predicts that by 2030, the combined computing power demand of just OpenAI and Anthropic alone will exceed 100 gigawatts. While the impact of space data centers will remain negligible for the next 3 to 5 years, by 2040, more than half of the new computing power may go into space. He stated that the core constraint lies in the cost of terrestrial energy and the ability to build power grids; once space deployment becomes more economical than terrestrial deployment, the migration of computing power to space will become inevitable. Regarding hardware and software co-design, Patel stated that the efficiency improvements in AI over the past three years have not primarily come from hardware, but rather from model-level and cross-layer collaborative optimization. He cited DeepSeek as an example, stating that its expert model shape is specifically optimized for NVIDIA's Hopper architecture, resulting in excellent performance on Hopper but poor performance on TPUs; Anthropic models are more suitable for TPUs, while OpenAI models are more GPU-oriented. He believes that the so-called CUDA moat is not essentially just CUDA itself, but rather the open-source model ecosystem's widespread collaborative optimization around GPUs. Patel also stated that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's strong support for emerging cloud computing providers is to prevent hyperscale cloud vendors from monopolizing the computing power landscape and to promote a multi-polar market. Furthermore, the InferenceX real-time inference benchmark system built by the SemiAnalysis team shows that, at equivalent quality, inference costs decrease by approximately 60 times annually, and intelligence per watt improves by approximately 40 times.
Sovright launches Argos tool to help early Zcash users recover assets from lost wallets.
According to BlockBeats, on June 30, Sovright, a non-profit organization founded by members of the governance team of the former Zcash developer Electric Coin Company (ECC), launched Argos, a wallet recovery tool to help early Zcash users recover assets in their Shielded Addresses that became inaccessible due to the cessation of maintenance on ZEC Wallet Lite in 2022. Sovright Executive Chairman Michelle Lai stated that users holding the original wallet's seed phrase can recover their funds through Argos. While the exact number of affected addresses cannot be accurately determined, the amount of funds involved is expected to be substantial, primarily impacting early and long-term Zcash users. In addition to Argos, Sovright recently launched a testnet version of the Sovright Mining Pool, which aims to help individual miners participate in mining and improve the problem of excessive concentration of Zcash computing power. Sovright was founded after a governance disagreement between the ECC and the governance body Bootstrap. All former ECC employees left to form the for-profit Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), while three former Bootstrap board members formed Sovright to continue promoting the Zcash ecosystem in a non-profit manner.