I wish Sidehack wasn't anti-Scrypt, I'd love to see what he could come up with for an EFFICIENT Scrypt miner using the A4 (I'm betting Innosilicon and their integrators go for the short-string higher-hash less efficient options).
On the other hand, if Innosilicon actually puts a buck on each string for their A4 based miner(s), it becomes a mostly moot point.
Guess you missed my project...I took the even more efficient Alchminer chip and have squeezed it to under 4w/MH at it most efficient setting (500kh/s). It can go to over 1MH on max speed(about 8-9 watts).
Check out the link in my sig.
And all of innosilicons A4 based miners are non string designs..they have about 4 chips per buck.
Nah, I saw the moonlanded - the Alcheminer chip was, from what I've seen of it, about the SAME efficiency as the A2.
I just don't like the limits the USB/board type design put on the chip for power and cooling.
Given Innosilicon hasn't even released the A4 chips yet, how can you say how their miner design is going to look?
Their *A2* designs has bucks, but they have stated the A4 is designed to work in a string setup - I don't recall that being an A2 option.
Last announcement on Innosilicon's web site was "June" timeframe for the A4 chips to start getting shipped, "July" for miners, as I recall.
The BIG question is "are they sticking with A3 release at the same time" that they stated in one of their early mentions of both chips?
The NEXT big question is "how good will the A3 be when they release it"?
.. i tend to agree with that but that's me and rules are rules, so I don't push it . 
