Bitcoin ASIC manufacturer Canaan saw 82% revenue drop in Q4

In keeping with a brand new filing with the US Securities and Trade Fee on March 7, Canaan, a Chinese language Bitcoin (BTC) miner and producer of application-specific built-in circuit (ASIC) mining machines, reported that its income decreased by 82.1% year-over-year to $56.8 million in This autumn 2022. Throughout the quarter, Canaan offered 1.9 million terahashes per second value of computing energy for Bitcoin mining, not accounting for decrease ASIC costs, representing a 75.8% decline from This autumn 2021. 

On the identical time, Canaan’s mining income improved 368.2% year-over-year to $10.46 million. As informed by Nangeng Zhang, chairman and CEO of Canaan:

“To mitigate demand dangers in the course of the market downturn, we’ve got been diligently bettering and creating our mining enterprise. Our efforts yielded extra progress in early 2023 with 3.8 EH/s hash charge put in for mining as of the top of February. Accordingly, we’ve got made decisive investments in bolstering our manufacturing capability and increasing our mining operations to extra various geographic areas that supply advantageous circumstances.”

Regardless of the phase’s success, nevertheless, Canaan’s internet earnings swung to a $63.6-million loss in This autumn 2022 in comparison with a revenue of $182.0 million in This autumn 2021. As informed by Jin Cheng, chief monetary officer of Canaan, the loss was as a consequence of stock write-downs and analysis bills associated to its new fleet of ASICs:

“Contemplating very comfortable market demand and low promoting value, we incurred a further stock write-down of RMB205.3 million, which additionally dampened our gross margin. Along side one-time increased analysis and growth bills regarding the tape-out for our A13 collection, our backside line suffered losses in the course of the quarter.”

For the total yr, the agency’s income decreased by 13.8% to $634.9 million, primarily as a consequence of higher trade circumstances in Q1 and Q2 2022. The agency at present has $706 million in complete property in comparison with $67 million in complete liabilities.