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Topic: Bitfury 16 nm chips and board design (Read 14781 times)

newbie
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Merit: 0
December 09, 2017, 02:45:03 AM
#71
I  too would like to buy up to 4 X5 boards. As you all may have seen, there price jumped from $500 to $650. I wonder why they are selling these at all at this point. Maybe a new chip nearby? Perhaps I missed it in other comments, but what is the shipping time like? I think the minimum buy is 10 boards if I understand correctly. I asked for clarification, but didn't get a reply from Vadim. What is the total demand from this forum so far? Have they answered anyone regarding weather or not they will use escrow?

member
Activity: 161
Merit: 12
December 06, 2017, 09:44:42 PM
#70
You can build a miner by buying old Antminer S1, S3 or S5 and then Hotmine X5 or Hotmine X6 upgrade kit from Hotmine.
Hotmine: http://en.hotmine.io/x5-x6-upgrade-kit-new
With first two (S1, S3) you need to buy separately a BB board (Beaglebone Black) and build a supporting bracket for it.
S5 has BB board.
You can see my review/guide for more instructions.

God, you're killing me.  Been trying to get three sets for quite awhile.  A few folks here have been trying to get a group buy together with trusted sources.  They have a ten set minimum.  Daria does answer all emails given 10 days or so.  I don't want to keep bugging them until they roll out their cart system if that's in the cards....

If you have a source for individual sets - I'd love to hear about it!  I'm sort of surprised at the lack of companies not doing this.  The business is already there and waiting to happen.  (Isn't that the basis of the "disrupter" economy?)

bsp
jr. member
Activity: 40
Merit: 7
December 05, 2017, 08:30:30 PM
#69
They ask for $2M now  Undecided
legendary
Activity: 3598
Merit: 2490
Evil beware: We have waffles!
November 29, 2017, 10:38:59 PM
#68
I’d imvest 100
As would I.
Great, that only leaves only 9,998 more (@ $100ea) folks needed just to meet Bitfury's $1M Minimum Order Req. for chips...

Don't see that happening anytime soon
newbie
Activity: 18
Merit: 0
November 29, 2017, 08:25:36 PM
#67
I’d imvest 100
newbie
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Merit: 0
October 13, 2017, 04:53:07 AM
#66
Did this ever gain any traction? I would be interested in throwing down if it was still a go. I Noticed that no one has commented on this thread in awhile tho
legendary
Activity: 3724
Merit: 3836
August 12, 2017, 08:07:03 PM
#65
Russians are going big with Bitfury and up to $100mil investment ($10mil into chip dev), want to challenge chinese and get up to 30% of all mining. 20 megawatts power at 1.3c/kwh.

Do you know what nm will they target?

they use 16nm Bitfury in Sunrise and for next gen altcoin miner (Multiclet) it's 28nm with working prototype (concept validation) at much higher nm.
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1007
August 12, 2017, 01:28:25 PM
#64
Russians are going big with Bitfury and up to $100mil investment ($10mil into chip dev), want to challenge chinese and get up to 30% of all mining. 20 megawatts power at 1.3c/kwh.

Do you know what nm will they target?
legendary
Activity: 3724
Merit: 3836
August 08, 2017, 11:02:15 PM
#63
Russians are going big with Bitfury and up to $100mil investment ($10mil into chip dev), want to challenge chinese and get up to 30% of all mining. 20 megawatts power at 1.3c/kwh.

legendary
Activity: 2422
Merit: 1706
Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.
August 06, 2017, 01:02:27 PM
#62
You can build a miner by buying old Antminer S1, S3 or S5 and then Hotmine X5 or Hotmine X6 upgrade kit from Hotmine.
Hotmine: http://en.hotmine.io/x5-x6-upgrade-kit-new
With first two (S1, S3) you need to buy separately a BB board (Beaglebone Black) and build a supporting bracket for it.
S5 has BB board.
You can see my review/guide for more instructions.
newbie
Activity: 7
Merit: 0
August 06, 2017, 12:25:20 PM
#61
yeah I've recognised that. I was thinking it was another chip because there was posts about 10$. My information about exact costs and minimum bundle amount may be helpfull to many, so I posted that.
I am also interested in Building miners, but don't have funds yet. PMing me about efficient  and small amount orders would be appreciated.
legendary
Activity: 2422
Merit: 1706
Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.
August 05, 2017, 09:47:26 AM
#60
Those are the same 16nm chips as they introduced originally.
My Hotminer X5 miner is equipped with those, see my review thread (link in my signature).
newbie
Activity: 7
Merit: 0
August 04, 2017, 05:32:44 AM
#59
There is a new BitFury chips, 16nm BF8162. I have contacted and confirmed that 1 chip is 7$ and minimum order amount is 500 000$. 1 chip has 100GH/s power and 0.1J/GH efficiency with conditional cooling.
full member
Activity: 133
Merit: 100
June 23, 2017, 03:59:58 PM
#58
i am also interested.
legendary
Activity: 1357
Merit: 1004
June 04, 2017, 11:48:31 PM
#57
I'm also interested.
sr. member
Activity: 336
Merit: 250
April 30, 2017, 10:04:48 AM
#56
I'm working, but dev time keeps getting kicked by manufacturing time. I started the 2Pac project to raise funds for BF16 dev but ended up taking over a month longer than planned to get the first batch built. Now all the kinks are worked out and I'm flat flying, but still haven't had time to get BF16 anything working. Way way behind schedule with new product development, but it's getting there. A lot of groundwork is laid, so as soon as we get chips talking the rest will fall into place pretty fast.

But that's not really this thread's project. I don't know what's up.

You can do it mate! I'm sure I have bought stuff based on your designs in the past and genuinely look forward to seeing more.
legendary
Activity: 3304
Merit: 1842
Curmudgeonly hardware guy
April 28, 2017, 11:08:49 PM
#55
I'm working, but dev time keeps getting kicked by manufacturing time. I started the 2Pac project to raise funds for BF16 dev but ended up taking over a month longer than planned to get the first batch built. Now all the kinks are worked out and I'm flat flying, but still haven't had time to get BF16 anything working. Way way behind schedule with new product development, but it's getting there. A lot of groundwork is laid, so as soon as we get chips talking the rest will fall into place pretty fast.

But that's not really this thread's project. I don't know what's up.
legendary
Activity: 1624
Merit: 1129
Bitcoin FTW!
April 28, 2017, 07:21:15 PM
#54


is there still interest in this project or did it just die

i would be interested to invest
Side hack has a plan for a few BF16 sticks, pods, and also a blade that can be directly mounted onto S1/3/5 frames, and nothing further has happened on this thread so I'd assume nobody else got the chips. IIRC Sidehack was one of the only guys to even get contacted by Bitfury with a realistic pricing for chips, so I think this project is dead.
newbie
Activity: 7
Merit: 0
April 28, 2017, 01:58:50 PM
#53


is there still interest in this project or did it just die

i would be interested to invest
sr. member
Activity: 504
Merit: 250
March 20, 2017, 10:26:15 AM
#52
I would be able to throw some financial weight behind a project like this in the coming months. $100k+ (most likely quite a bit more)
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