# Bitmain’s new Ether ASIC mining rig may not fix GPU shortage after all
“# Bitmain’s new Ether ASIC mining rig may not fix GPU shortage after all ” Cryptocurrency mining rig manufacturer Bitmain announced the pending release of a new Ether (ETH) miner on April 16. The Antminer E9 model is an application-specific integrated circuit chip, which will run on the Ethereum blockchain’s Ethash algorithm. No official release…