Bitcoin Mining Infrastructure Sees New Value in AI Era

At the MoneyFrontier 2026 New Infrastructure Intelligent Computing Summit, Dr. Yang Zuoxing, founder of WhatsMiner and chairman of Yanjie Microelectronics, delivered a keynote on the intersection of Bitcoin mining infrastructure and AI computing power.

In his speech, 'From Bitcoin Computing Power to AI Computing Power,' Yang stated that Bitcoin was essentially born for AI, preparing the world's most advanced manufacturing processes, cost-effective component solutions, lowest power consumption chips, and design methodologies for nearly 20 years.

Yang categorized AI computing power into training and inference computing power. He noted that oligopolies have formed in the training field, but sees a huge opportunity in the emerging inference computing power era, which he predicts will grow to an annual market size of $80 trillion by 2040.