Ebang claims to have obtained the exclusive license for AsicBoost Korean patents. The patent holder has sued Samsung to ban the production of Shenma mining machine chips.

Wu said blockchain exclusively learned that Ebang announced that it had obtained the exclusive license for the AsicBoost Korean patent, which can improve the performance of Bitcoin mining by about 20%. People familiar with the matter told Wu said blockchain that the patent holder has sued Samsung wafer factory and demanded to ban the production of Shenma mining machine chips. Currently, Shenma is the main demand side of Samsung's 8nm mining machine chips. The documents provided by the lawyer stated that the product model involved is the ASIC chip used in the Bitcoin mining machine (M30S, etc.) manufactured by Shenzhen Bit Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. in China. As of press time, Shenma has not responded.