I have a feeling it would be a lot cheaper GH/S compare to the current price but the unit may have been designed for a large data center use or the multi-use system such as miner 1st then the extra heat get recycled for the office heater or pre-warm the water in the office building where the monster get housed.
Power spec is nothing out of the ordinary, if it was planned to be used as the industrial equipment. May be that's where the OP mentioned that this could be a group-buy as it will be more than a buying a new car but buying the heave weight commercial shop machine.
with the 2TH unites or 1.2TH unites with 400% equipment upgrade guarantees on the market by end of this year or early January of 2014, the current home use type miners may have hit the ceiling. Now, it could be a new break-through in the technology or just clustering the current technology like when the clustered PS3 for the super secret Government Use was an unthinkable past a few years ago, but it did existed.
Also, the price wars of the miners, it makes more sense that cramming more power into 1 humongous unit to come up with the manufacture's profit. I'm sure these companies are making nice profit for the current 2TH unit sale price, but in order for whoever this is to stay in the game, reducing the profit per whateer the chips they are going to use but cutting the per-chip profit but compensate that with large number of chips in 1 commercial use unit.
Sometimes no name journalist can break the world news just by his/her crazy luck. May be this OP fell into something he/she wasn't planning to be a part of. Or, got succkered into the crazy scam but not realizing it yet. Either way, we should stay tuned and see the result.
This OP is taking the risk of releasing unbelieable story by the mass by taking the chance with his credibility. Let's at least give this OP do the information release as it was fed to the OP, so when the OP does the review, the OP won't withhold some info the OP think the readers may attack the OP again.
38TH/S will crush everyone if it did come out by end of this year and hit the network. Most Pre-Orders for the higher end miners who paid $4000 and up will see their hope of ROI like the 4th of July fireworks.
MAY BE I'M DREAMING but it's possible....
I'm so disappointed with the current pre-order conditions and lots of mining investors who lost life savings but I'm trying to be positive today! May be just Today...
Thank you so much for your perspective. I agree with you 100%. To be a part of bitcoin is its own reward. This whole thing is very exciting. I know exactly what you are saying. A lot of people don’t remember. BFL took BTC as payment when the price was $5 per BTC. So it took a lot of BTC to pay for the first pre-order ASIC miners. Some people if they had that BTC today would be a lot better off. My vision is to provide people with a safety net of information. Sometimes people just need someone to tell them to sleep on it so they don’t make the same mistake some of us did many years ago. So many people are coming to BTC to improve their lives. We owe it to them to steer them in the right direction. If they fumble and we lose another Bitcoin adopter. We fail all together. Bitcoin is starting to shape into the greed machine. People are forgetting the fundamentals of bitcoin. As one person all I can do is try to stay positive and server bitcoin the best I can.