price of , day of release, 3100. this is like Keno , but fun to see end of story.
could go with .05 watt/Giga.
Why would Bitmain care about what a used 2880 Bladecenter PS can handle? They don't sell those.
I suspect their new chip might be capable of that - at the bottom end of it's operating voltage range, where Bitmain NEVER runs their miners.
S11 will continue to be a 3-board design in a form factor similar to the S7/S9.
25.3 TH plus/minus 5% at 1487 watts +7% at the wall using their 1600 watt PS (93% efficienty).
Initial shipping date 16 Febuary 2020.
Initial batch cost 4.3 Bitcoin, or whatever that equates to in Dollars = or $3200 dollars, whichever is MORE.
The CHIP (BM1389) will be capable of 0.045 J/GH but they won't run it at it's highest efficiency point or anywhere close to that.
I'm giving it 50/50 they'll come up with a BM1388 chip in late 2017, squeezing another 25-35% efficiency from it through improvements in process node tech and more work at optimisation - in which case there will be an S11 much sooner, but it will be more of an S5 to S7 transition on the same node with quite a bit lower percentage improvement on specs.
BTW - anyone else notice that the BM1386 is missing in action? Gotta wonder if they started work on a 14/16nm not-full-optimised chip design and aborted it when they realised it wouldn't be efficient enough over the BM1385 to be worth producing (Hello LK-1401)....
I think the 3 board design is here to stay aswell for them to have it on S7 and now S9. I personally like it with a mining area, but can see why home miners would want a more S3'ish miner. But likely remain odd numbers aswell I don't see a full all in one like S4's coming again. I think selling AntMiner APW3-12-1600 separate is a pretty good bet for them as that is heck of a add-on sale if you can get people to buy PSU with miner.
But as far as efficiency I think they will manage to squeeze some more efficiency out of S9 chips. Going to guess 30-45ish percent increase enough where it where people want it basically.
And i'm pretty sure Bitmain will stick to current TDP. 1400W~ make sense and that by itself take up a whole typical 120v circuit.
I also think they will come up with something else before the end of the year. Maybe they will keep churning out S9's... but i don't know. I'd be inclined to see them release a S9+ thats the same thing, but lower voltage, so they can farm more money off silly miners.
could be even lower, you know S11 won't be as fast as mid 2017, it will be within mid 2018 as they are probably introducing a S? model each year.
i mean, the watt power: assume that kind of miner could go lower than 1200 Kw.
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I believe they might come up with a S9 lite model, 2 boards like the current S7 varient.
I'm pretty SURE they'll do a S9+ as a "triple" miner similar to the S5+ since they'll have plenty of time to do varients on the S9 theme.
They probably won't release a "single unit" form factor miner every that can't be powered by a single one of their 1600 watt PS, but multi-unit types they've already done and probably will do again.
However, if they come up with a new 14/16nm chip with 25%+ better efficiency than their current BM1387, it won't go into an "S9" model - that's inconsistant with their past practice. It'll be a "supprise we're early" S11 model.
Gotta wonder how many of those S7 lite model things they managed to sell before the S9 announcement pretty much killed that design.