Canaan, one of many earliest producers of Bitcoin (BTC) ASIC miners, has released the Avalon Immersion Cooling Miner A1066I, a tool designed to be liquid-cooled.

Not like conventional air-cooled gadgets and customary sorts of liquid cooling for fanatic PCs, the A1066I’s electrical parts are submerged in a particular dielectric fluid that carries warmth away straight from the boards.

Dielectric fluids are specifically engineered to insulate the parts and keep away from the corrosion injury and quick circuiting that might happen with commonplace water or different sorts of fluids. That is additionally completely different from liquid cooling based mostly on water blocks, the place a particular warmth exchanger isolates the water from the parts.

The A1066I is a big container gadget that may maintain as much as 90 immersion-cooled items. Canaan claims that every unit produces 50 Terahashes per second for an influence consumption of 3400 watts, whereas every tank reaches as much as 7200 TH/s and 306 kilowatts of vitality utilization when totally stacked.

Whereas Canaan claims the A1066I has higher efficiency than its air-cooled top-of-the-line A1246, the latter packs 90 TH/s of hashrate for a similar vitality consumption, making it extra environment friendly on paper. Cointelegraph requested for clarification on the figures however didn’t instantly obtain a response.

Nonetheless, the native liquid cooling characteristic could make the gadget extra enticing to sure classes of miners, particularly these in hotter areas. The more practical cooling methodology additionally permits for extra aggressive overclocking, doubtlessly permitting for increased hashing efficiency — although electrical energy consumption stays an necessary constraint when attempting to spice up the hash charge. The cooling methodology additionally advantages from safety in opposition to mud and overheating.

Canaan is likely one of the unique ASIC producers and the primary to launch a profitable preliminary public providing on NASDAQ. Its efficiency has been lackluster since then as lawsuits and claims that the corporate misled traders surfaced. Quarterly working losses weighed closely on the inventory worth too.

Canaan’s chief opponents are Bitmain, which is having its share of troubles as nicely, and MicroBT, an up-and-coming producer that has steadily gained market share previously months.