This 20nm process bothers me very much. How can there be a company holding such a technology and not having any public presentations about it, they would have so many big customers if they would just announce the technology instead of trying to hide it until some <500k bitcoin ASICs are produced. Doesn't really sound like that foundry's best interest.
nobody is hiding anything. Google "20nm" and there seem to be many results. Nvidia dismissing 20nm as a useless stop-gap, samsung manufacturing memory ICs on 20nm, and even this on the TSMC website:http://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/20nm.htm
That said, the 20nm still does bother me as I find this unlikely to be cost-effective. No business in their right mind would go straight for 20nm with all the risk involved in Bitcoin. You would definitely test the market with a less expensive process to reduce risk. If their design can do 0.25W/GH/s, then even doing this on 110nm or 65nm their scaling would be more power efficient than everyone else on the market already.
Those Avalons are 110nm, that must be what you're making. You'd have to be either extremely naive or a scammer to suggest anyone capable of manufacturing 20nm semiconductors is going to bother with bitcoin hardware.
But I'd love to be proven wrong
But I'd love to be proven wrong
I don't understand why a semiconductor manufacturer would care what the customer is paying them to manufacture, as long as they have the money.
But this time I am a real person with the technology background and here is my LinkedIn profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/
There is no evidence to prove that this person is you. For all we know, you just found this person's profile online and thought he was a good fit.
I do find it unlikely to be you. A seeming native New Yorker with English as a first language, with so many educated credentials and yet your English skills in your posts here are so poor?
I find at the very least the person in the linkedin profile seems to have a different writing style. Am I the only one who thinks this?
tits or gtfo
Shouldn't that be "GH/s or gtfo"?
"tits or GH/s"
Anyway, I'm just picking things apart. I have no real reason to trust or distrust the claim of the OP. Everything is possible, although the claims are high.
Hmm.. if this dude is really located in NYC, that mean's he's only a few train stops away from me. I always feel safer when I purchase something from someone who is local. >:]
Please contact him then if you have the time. I'm sure he would like to know some unknown person on the internet is trying to impersonate him.
