Topic: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It - page 929. (Read 3917543 times)

so why so they still have their old pool linked to their charts?..thanks

Because the answer is almost certainly that AM would not do this. They intentionally stopped using pools.

Did a double-take when I saw your avatar/username, very funny.

Seconded

There already exist companies working with chips on "better" technology at this exact moment -- Avalon (110nm) and BFL (65nm). So far they have been more an example of how not to approach this business rather than a threat. In the short term, it seems it's quite obviously a case of "size doesn't matter, but what you do with it": proper management, execution and customer service weigh a lot more towards success compared to the technology of the chips.

In the long term, there will come a point when the utter gains in efficiency of better chips will make up for the incompetence of all these competitors -- and it is quite possible that a new and so far unproven company comes up with both the tech and the execution to "take the crown"; it's happened before in very competitive fields. At that point, ASICMiner should be ready with an answer -- but rushing towards the latest and greatest in process nodes might not be that answer. Keep in mind that the more recent/small a process node is, the more difficult and expensive it becomes to work with. The tools are more expensive, the companies providing wafers are fewer, chips take longer to design and any mistakes cost more in both time and money. Personally I believe keeping at least one or two generations "behind" the latest would yield a the optimal balance of cost vs. performance and power consumption, but of course that's something for ASICMiner to evaluate themselves.

Thanks for ignoring me, I was the first response after you asked for questions:

Voted thanks for doing this looking forward to some good replies  

Ahahah! I would be too scared to just think about it


Back to topic.
I'd like to know what you guys think about the next specs. KnC aims at going straight to very high-technology chips (28nm), way ahead of existing ones at the moment. (Please don't start saying it's not sure they will do, that's not the point here, I wrote "aims at").
If Friedcat announces soon the specs of gen 2, and they are below this.
 

• Would it be a serious concern? For which reason, immediate damages to "reputation of leader"? Longer term concerns?
• Would it be fine because on the other hand it is cheaper to produce and has some advantages, and we can wait for gen3 (4?...) to get closer to state-of-the-art chips? (you know, like the CPU you're using to read this, what we're heading to anyway on the long term)

In short, I believe the ASIC market now is still a proto-market, sooner or later it will be way more competitive, do you think AM to remain the leader needs to be on the technological edge at any moment or not necessary?

who filed the patent on these usb devices?..what Bitfountain link is everyone talking about here?..thanks

wait til you see what happens when you ignore MPOE-PR...

ahhhh relief.

You made my day! A whole new (clean) world is unfolding in front of me!  

it doesnt seem up to date for this week since it is showing just over .012 but it should make it halfway up to the .016 line. THank you very much for the graph but do you also know how often it is updated?

Much appreciated.

Worked for me!

http://runeks.dk/bitcoin/ 2nd graph

Between 1.4 and 1.7 or so.

Is this weeks mining dividend still right around what the last few have been even with the low hash rate over the last couple days?

Can someone tell me what the last 4-5 weeks dividends were for mining alone?

Thanks!!

if you click on the ignore button under TECHICENINE's username, it reveals the AM website.

So question should have been:

"Which Bitfountain does ASICMINER belong to, as there is more than one?"

ASICMINER = Bitfountain (China registered 2012)


Bitfountain group New York= not the same per friedcat

thanks