I would venture to say (armed with absolutely no information at all) that the 50 BTC they are charging for the 10Gh/s block eruptor blades allows them to make 4 new ones to replace it... i.e. it costs them 10BTC to make. I fully expect them to deploy their 260 Th/s farm, though I think they will move to a more advanced technology/process node whatever, so as to simplify their deployments/logistics.
Deployments for them is expensive as they need a person (or people) to manage the deployment. The less number of people they need, the less overhead, the more profit. AM is governed by its ability to be efficient.
Topic: How efficient will ASICs get? (Read 1078 times)
It is my understanding that the current generation of ASICs all get around 100MH/joule give or take a few million hashes. While that is upwards of 20x more efficient than GPU mining, how much more can be pushed out? Given we understand exactly the operation needed, does anybody know what the minimum amount of energy that could possibly be expended to perform SHA256?
Do you know what Moore's law is?
When your NRE for an ASIC runs several million or tens of millions of dollars, you have to make a financial decision if it's worth the investment, risk, and design/lead times for a marginal improvement over what already exists
Look at it this way : Asic Miner is a 100% capitalist, maximize profit type of organization. They used, what, 110 or 130nm node for their fab? You could get much better power efficency and hashrates with a smaller process, but it's far more expensive and complicated. They have no plans to change node, they're bringing 262 THash/sec online with their 110nm in the next 3 months. A massive investment that shows they're dedicated to what they've got.
You really believe they're making 26,200 blades?
For every blade they sell, another one will be sold to keep somebody else in the mining game.
It is my understanding that the current generation of ASICs all get around 100MH/joule give or take a few million hashes. While that is upwards of 20x more efficient than GPU mining, how much more can be pushed out? Given we understand exactly the operation needed, does anybody know what the minimum amount of energy that could possibly be expended to perform SHA256?
Do you know what Moore's law is?
When your NRE for an ASIC runs several million or tens of millions of dollars, you have to make a financial decision if it's worth the investment, risk, and design/lead times for a marginal improvement over what already exists
Look at it this way : Asic Miner is a 100% capitalist, maximize profit type of organization. They used, what, 110 or 130nm node for their fab? You could get much better power efficency and hashrates with a smaller process, but it's far more expensive and complicated. They have no plans to change node, they're bringing 262 THash/sec online with their 110nm in the next 3 months. A massive investment that shows they're dedicated to what they've got.
You really believe they're making 26,200 blades?
It is my understanding that the current generation of ASICs all get around 100MH/joule give or take a few million hashes. While that is upwards of 20x more efficient than GPU mining, how much more can be pushed out? Given we understand exactly the operation needed, does anybody know what the minimum amount of energy that could possibly be expended to perform SHA256?
ASIC's could be easily 2x - 4x more power efficient as the best chips out today even using the same NM manufacturing process because as far as I know none of the chips out are true CLEAN SHEET designs. You can get several orders of a magnitude by having lower NM manufacturing processes as well as a more efficiency from multiple but slower cores per chip. All of this costs money and lots of it but then makes for a lower cost product in the end.
It is my understanding that the current generation of ASICs all get around 100MH/joule give or take a few million hashes. While that is upwards of 20x more efficient than GPU mining, how much more can be pushed out? Given we understand exactly the operation needed, does anybody know what the minimum amount of energy that could possibly be expended to perform SHA256?
Do you know what Moore's law is?
When your NRE for an ASIC runs several million or tens of millions of dollars, you have to make a financial decision if it's worth the investment, risk, and design/lead times for a marginal improvement over what already exists
Look at it this way : Asic Miner is a 100% capitalist, maximize profit type of organization. They used, what, 110 or 130nm node for their fab? You could get much better power efficency and hashrates with a smaller process, but it's far more expensive and complicated. They have no plans to change node, they're bringing 262 THash/sec online with their 110nm in the next 3 months. A massive investment that shows they're dedicated to what they've got.
Do you know what Moore's law is?
It's associated with Wirth's law. With permutations such as "Gate's law":
"The speed of software halves every 18 months."
Now, to be fair, that does not really apply to custom hashing chips. But the whole goal is to support Bitcoin (or that is the way most people look at it) and Bitcoin as a system displays such behavior in a big way due to the persistent nature of the baggage it needs to pack around.
It is my understanding that the current generation of ASICs all get around 100MH/joule give or take a few million hashes. While that is upwards of 20x more efficient than GPU mining, how much more can be pushed out? Given we understand exactly the operation needed, does anybody know what the minimum amount of energy that could possibly be expended to perform SHA256?
Do you know what Moore's law is?
It is my understanding that the current generation of ASICs all get around 100MH/joule give or take a few million hashes. While that is upwards of 20x more efficient than GPU mining, how much more can be pushed out? Given we understand exactly the operation needed, does anybody know what the minimum amount of energy that could possibly be expended to perform SHA256?
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