Topic: [ANN] Bitfury is looking for alpha-testers of first chips! FREE MONEY HERE! - page 41. (Read 176727 times)

I think they will be priced at whatever the market is willing to pay for them (which is too much, IMHO).

Low costs miners meaning $5 to $10 per gh/s??

+1

Let's get these things to Bkk and Burnin! (assuming they have any energy and willpower left after their current projects)

+1!

Fantastic news. So you are looking for mass production of low cost miners.

That's good for competition, and good for Bitcoin.

I like where this is heading.

We wanted to send out samples this week but we ran out of chips too fast. It is crucial to estimate the yield of the chip production [number of bad chips] before we assemble mining boards with more than 1 chip. There is a huge difference between 1% broken chips and 3% broken chips if for example 16 chips are placed on 1 board. To assess the error rate we had to treat 1000 chips using the same procedure. This left only a very small amount of chips for independent testers. These were selected by bitfury in advance and will receive few chips in coming days (we start sending tomorrow).

We will have more chips in 2 weeks though and we are ready to sent samples after that. However we can not send the whole production lot as samples to all requests we get. We have to introduce restrictions / barriers for requests otherwise we spend our time packaging small packages and send them around the world. To cover our handling expenses and shipping costs we will provide 5 chips in exchange for 1 BTC, AND we will not ship more than 5 chips to 1 address. Users who present interesting results will receive more chips as part of a separate collaboration deal. We are mostly interested in:
1. getting high hash rates from the chips
2. producing low cost mining devices
3. operating the chips in daisy chain (string) to cut on power regulator costs. [this will be explained later by bitfury]

I will write more about the chip sample program in the next week.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/picostocks-100ths-bitcoin-mine-100th-140366

What is 100TH?

And less power hungry, two times at least. And this is comparision 55nm to 28nm. Imagine what bitfury will do with 28nm process

I think those waiting to buy Bitfury chips may be in for a long wait. As far as I know only Metabank and 100TH will have access to those chips (aside form testers). Does anyone else know otherwise?

Thats the hope.  5 of intron's boards will be as fast as a KNC Jupiter.

I think everyone is waiting for DYI solution with Bitfury's chips!

*watching*

Yes, Batch1 is gone and there is no information about next batches

Me too. But where to buy? Batch #1 (Bitfury) is gone - right?

I am considering ditching my avalon Batch3 miner order for Bitfury tech.  The miner delays and chip sales have pushed the risk/reward ratio into unfavorable territory.  It looks like you have a big head start with bitfury.  Thanks for updating the thread on your progress.  Looking forward to seeing the products you bring to the market.

Yes, I started with Avalon. But I'm in batch 4 and I couldn't
get samples. So I jumped ship when the bitfury ASIC came along.

The S-HASH boards could work with any ASIC, just the interface
with the processor needs some re-work and possibly the power supply.
So when this is done and I can lay my hands on some Avalon samples
I will continue with the Avalon board.

Later when BFL ships there ASICs I try to make one for their chip also.

intron

Intron -

I think I recall you mentioning that your original testing PCBs were designed for Avalon chips.  Are you planning on making Avalon compatible hash modules with Bitfury chips?  I am sure they would be a very popular upgrade with the Avalon chassis purchasers!

No, there are more. No idea who they are or how many.

intron

intron nice work again, will you share any additional information abouth the chips you will use in these pcb, expecially the power supply .  I suppose you are the only one that have chips, once I receive chips will start showing test results too.