with kncminer having 100 GH asics on the on the way --- Avalon need to upgrade to V2
kncminer does not have any asics last time I checked.
This and the higher price for the newer chips doesnt mean that the new tech is so superiour. The gh per $ isnt such a big difference.
Are you nuts? Avalon charges around $50 per gh bulk chip, KnC is potentially offering $17.50 per assembled gh!
Actually, if you do a group buy the going rate would be $35 for ~1gh. Plus they can be overclocked to lessen the gap to knc..
Actually, avalon goes for around $30/ghs. Saturn is 3795$/200ghs wo vat e.g. $19/ghs per assambled unit.
But fact is that they dont have working asic yet and that many things can be off specs.
Avalon's chips are 282 Mh/s, BTC price was between 120 and 140 during bulk buys, plus shipping. I remember at the time to the UK it worked out to around $14 a chip. ($50 was wrong sorry, mental math)
I'm not including boards, heat sinks, power supply, casing, etc.
A complete Jupiter unit with revised specs comes to $17.50 per Gh fully assembled. These are reputedly minimum.
Both will have DIYers and nutty risk takers liquid cooling and maxing them out beyond stability. That will be fun to observe, but not participate in!
The big difference is the difficulty between the two investments. Batch #1 chips
should be arriving in the next few weeks. The difficulty increase between those chips and sep/oct for knc may likely render knc's ROI to never. That in my mind, makes the price difference well worth it.
28nm will profit long after 110nm, and that's without the amount of intermediaries involved in delivering chips, splitting chips, assembling chips, then delivering chips, especially as many of these intermediaries are relatively anonymous and producing untested products, such as 64 chip boards.
I hope it does work out for all, genuinely. I don't see this ASIC race as being profitable, as much as fun to part of, but I do fear some will have tears as they have saddled themselves with debt stupidly to play this game.
No doubt Yifu et al. are sitting pretty though, whatever the outcome, the stress has been worth it for BitSyncom...
