Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 16.

Apprentice

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Quote from: 2112 on April 16, 2018, 02:24:55 PM

Did anyone here in this thread managed to enable the ASICboost on their S9's and try to mine on one of the two pools that support it? The old rumor had it that S9 does support ASICboost under the name "multi_version" (or some such), but it was tried only on the testnet pools.

trying random numbers for bmminer.conf for parameter { ... "multi-version" : "1" } but haven;t noticed any changes.

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Did anyone here in this thread managed to enable the ASICboost on their S9's and try to mine on one of the two pools that support it? The old rumor had it that S9 does support ASICboost under the name "multi_version" (or some such), but it was tried only on the testnet pools.

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Quote from: Apprentice on April 15, 2018, 12:53:08 AM

Guys, check this.

Antbox

https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=00020180321171726928VcIHUA5O0660

After the rise of bitcoin mining, it was always the first step to find a suitable large enough site with electricity and suitable temperature to construct mining farm. It takes relatively more time and manpower to finish one mining farm. The profit is also affected by the variation of the dry season and wet season if hydropower is used. Besides, the operation and maintenance of a mining farm is also very onerous.

But for a year now, on 20 March, Bitmain has launched a new product, Antbox, a MOBILE mining farm! It uses standard container construction, after connecting electricity and networks, you can mine bitcoins right away. It can greatly save the time cost of building a mining farm. Because it is easy to transport, Antbox can make a seasonal migration to access to cheap water electricity or suitable temperatures.

Antbox has an internal single-row design and it achieves very good heat dissipation by fan cooling, external curtain wall and electric shutters. A single Antbox can house 324 units of Antminer S9. A 365-day warranty is also a guarantee of profits.

Old news and incredibly overpriced. i have a bridge to sell you.

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I can’t see anything in the link for an Antbox, maybe it’s not avail in the US.

Seems like a smart idea for a large miner to house Antminers, and it sounds like direct competition to the Bitfury Blockbox.
“The BlockBox AC is one of the first mobile Bitcoin mining units that has the scale of a full-size data center, allowing for easy access to the Bitcoin network. For the first time, Bitcoin mining can be readily purchased at petahash-scale.”

Neither much use to a small time guy like myself

Apprentice

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Guys, check this.

Antbox

https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=00020180321171726928VcIHUA5O0660

After the rise of bitcoin mining, it was always the first step to find a suitable large enough site with electricity and suitable temperature to construct mining farm. It takes relatively more time and manpower to finish one mining farm. The profit is also affected by the variation of the dry season and wet season if hydropower is used. Besides, the operation and maintenance of a mining farm is also very onerous.

But for a year now, on 20 March, Bitmain has launched a new product, Antbox, a MOBILE mining farm! It uses standard container construction, after connecting electricity and networks, you can mine bitcoins right away. It can greatly save the time cost of building a mining farm. Because it is easy to transport, Antbox can make a seasonal migration to access to cheap water electricity or suitable temperatures.

Antbox has an internal single-row design and it achieves very good heat dissipation by fan cooling, external curtain wall and electric shutters. A single Antbox can house 324 units of Antminer S9. A 365-day warranty is also a guarantee of profits.

thebigjdoe

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yah, about $60 more for the S9... Not sure how it is worth it unless you have very low power cost.

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Quote from: leowonderful on April 13, 2018, 09:59:11 AM

I don’t know if it’s just me, but upon visiting the shop site for Bitmain, I get the error ‘Request resource is illegal or system inner error!’, and it seems they’ve completely removed the S9s from the shop as of now, and both the T9 and the PSU bundled T9 is currently OOS.

Perhaps heavy load is causing the error? I’m guessing that’s the issue as it’s taking much more time to load the shop page right now.

Website is back, L3+ and S9 is back as well with price increase as well.

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Quote from: madmartyk on April 13, 2018, 10:03:47 AM

If I would have had something bigger than a $120 coupon this morning I would have snagged one

I got 17 Delivered and 12 On the way Cheapest price waiting for Bitcoin to be 28K Grin

after that i will sell miners @ $8499

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Yes I am a pirate, 300 years too late!

If I would have had something bigger than a $120 coupon this morning I would have snagged one

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Quote from: madmartyk on April 13, 2018, 09:58:59 AM

Now a site error. Oh well.

Can you see the pricve of E3 and X3 just now they raised $70 and $90

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Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.

Quote from: leowonderful on April 13, 2018, 09:59:11 AM

I don’t know if it’s just me, but upon visiting the shop site for Bitmain, I get the error ‘Request resource is illegal or system inner error!’, and it seems they’ve completely removed the S9s from the shop as of now, and both the T9 and the PSU bundled T9 is currently OOS.

Perhaps heavy load is causing the error?

I got the exact same error message.

I think they are having issues with the website.

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Bitcoin FTW!

I don’t know if it’s just me, but upon visiting the shop site for Bitmain, I get the error ‘Request resource is illegal or system inner error!’, and it seems they’ve completely removed the S9s from the shop as of now, and both the T9 and the PSU bundled T9 is currently OOS.

Perhaps heavy load is causing the error? I’m guessing that’s the issue as it’s taking much more time to load the shop page right now.

madmartyk

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Yes I am a pirate, 300 years too late!

Now a site error. Oh well.

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Quote from: madmartyk on April 13, 2018, 09:56:13 AM

I just checked the S9 a while ago and I could order one

Rite now there is none but if you already have in Cart and its not expired than please go ahead and pay, because i am sure the price will be somewhere 1.5K while they open new batch of April 21-30

madmartyk

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I just checked the S9 a while ago and I could order one

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Quote from: ricknamer on April 12, 2018, 06:18:08 PM

For anyone looking to order from Bitmain.

I just placed an order now.

They are now accepting BCH, BTC and LTC as payment.

First I have seen this.

The last order i placed of 13.5T S9s, received 2 of them 13T. after exchanging tickets, they have decided to compensate with a $83 coupon.

For me the best miner is the 14T. It runs at cooler temperatures reaching max 74C and almost steady fan speeds.

The 13T and 13.5T are driving me crazy. the fans keeps going crazy, constantly ramping up to max and down, overthought the inlet temperature is 19C! tried everything but still going crazy.

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For anyone looking to order from Bitmain.

I just placed an order now.

They are now accepting BCH, BTC and LTC as payment.

First I have seen this.

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Quote from: HyperMega on April 12, 2018, 10:24:22 AM

Quote from: ccgllc on April 11, 2018, 05:15:22 PM

Quote from: shellyfinest on April 11, 2018, 09:01:16 AM

Bitmain's 16nm Bitcoin ASIC orders have recently been shifted from TSMC's Fab 14 in Taiwan to the fab in Nanjing, China as Fab 14 will be upgraded to support a 12nm manufacturing process. The orders are expected to begin shipments in May, the sources said.

Read that carefully folks... Order were shifted to the China fab, presumable also a 16nm one. Fab 14 was being upgraded, but Bitmains chips would not be coming from there now, they will be coming from the older tech China plant.

I fully agree. The more useful information was, that they “talk” about 7nm with TMSC. This technology will be more likely the base for the S11 ASIC than 12nm.
So the good news is, it seems that they didn’t even start the 7nm design process.

How much better is 12nm over 16nm u think? 12/16 = 0.75. Will it be 25% ish better?

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Quote from: ccgllc on April 11, 2018, 05:15:22 PM

Quote from: shellyfinest on April 11, 2018, 09:01:16 AM

Bitmain's 16nm Bitcoin ASIC orders have recently been shifted from TSMC's Fab 14 in Taiwan to the fab in Nanjing, China as Fab 14 will be upgraded to support a 12nm manufacturing process. The orders are expected to begin shipments in May, the sources said.

Read that carefully folks... Order were shifted to the China fab, presumable also a 16nm one. Fab 14 was being upgraded, but Bitmains chips would not be coming from there now, they will be coming from the older tech China plant.

I fully agree. The more useful information was, that they “talk” about 7nm with TMSC. This technology will be more likely the base for the S11 ASIC than 12nm.
So the good news is, it seems that they didn’t even start the 7nm design process.

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Quote from: rifleman74 on April 11, 2018, 03:00:46 PM

Quote from: Sandal_Hat on April 11, 2018, 11:45:18 AM

Quote from: shellyfinest on April 11, 2018, 09:01:16 AM

Didn't see this mentioned in the S9 thread, but thought I'd share some info on the S9 that I saw mentioned in an article about Bitmain's E3 :

..."Because of the declining value of cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, some market watchers are concerned that Bitmain may significantly cut its orders with TSMC. However, the sources from the upstream supply chain revealed that Bitmain so far has not made any major adjustment to its orders. In addition to 16nm and 28nm mining and AI chip orders, Bitmain is currently in talks with the Taiwan-based wafer foundry about manufacturing on its 7nm process.

Bitmain's 16nm Bitcoin ASIC orders have recently been shifted from TSMC's Fab 14 in Taiwan to the fab in Nanjing, China as Fab 14 will be upgraded to support a 12nm manufacturing process. The orders are expected to begin shipments in May, the sources said.

Fab 14 has already obtained orders from MediaTek for its AI-supported Helio P60 smartphone AP and Nvidia for its next-generation GPUs, the sources added.

In addition to the Antminer E3, Bitmain's Sophon BM1680 AI chip is also manufactured on TSMC's 28nm, the sources noted. "

Source : https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20180410PD210.html

S11 coming? so fast?

That's production of the chips in May...with most of the current Bitmain coupons expiring end of June. Coincidence? Roll Eyes

Date doesnt really matter, since they simply do not allow Coupons for new products - like with the E3.

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