What does this mean? How does this affect home miners? Will difficulty shoot up soon due to Bitfury 28nm chips?
The chips are reported to perform at 0.2J/GH, which is a pretty substantial achievement. Once the chip is fully developed / market ready, you can bet all of the big farms will want to incorporate it as soon as possible. It will drive their energy requirements down, allow them to expand, and, as a result, ultimately drive up the difficulty. How long it takes to get to this point, or how high the difficulty will go, is hard to say.
I thought from now on Bitfury was only self-mining with their gear....
They also sell wholesale to other farms/ clouds to share revenue splits or contract for hashrate.
I know they used to do that, I thought with the new hardware that was no longer the case but perhaps they are...
They dont have time to make retail machines but will probably sell their chips in bulk if the price is right. Being first developer with latest gen high efficiency chips give a huge advantage over the competition where they can almost dictate their price because they have invested millions in r and d.
dictate their price? with coins at 240-250 usd I am not so sure how fast they will sell. Sell yes, but sell fast not so sure. Now if knc really can do a .06 watt chip in bulk that will sell much better.
One thing I do think is growth will get a boost from this. maybe it will do steady 5% vs the 2 to 3% we did from nov. 2014 to now
