Given that raw materials, manpower services and cost of production is significantly lower in China, other companies that will try to compete against the Chinese in making ASICs would be placed on a losing battle. We all know that these dudes want to get the best possible profit margin for their sake, and how would that be possible if BITMAIN can put up crazy competitive prices but still be in profit in the end? The Japanese can become a likely competitor, but for now it will be BITMAIN who will be catering for a the demand in the mining market while other companies are still thinking of setting up their own firm.
Actually, Bitmain's chips are produced by TSMC and are actually made in Taiwan not in the China fab.
i wish there was more competition in the mining hardware scene. i feel like there still is a dire need for more companies in other countries that get into ASIC production.
last year when price was rising fast i heard a lot of news about many different companies (like in Japan and Russia,...) were getting in. but i never found out what happened to them. did they eventually start their production or did it die there?
There is far more competition that a few years ago..
For w while the s9 was clearly losing market share in favor of Inno's T2 and the T3 just got announced, a lot of miners are also still looking into Avalon with its 841, the pangolin miners and many more
Unfortunately, GMO's miner was quite a flop, even if it supposed to have a breakthrough 7nm chip.
Never heard of anything coming from Russia
Any word on the specs? There's nothing on Bitmain's site that I can find, and the articles just cite the chip efficiency that Jihan claimed a couple months ago.
Only speculation on both S15 and T15 till now, and the hashing rate are just too far away in each rumor.
I doubt they would be able to pull 35TH at 1400W as some claim, but...who knows