https://www.facebook.com/Bitmain/posts/859782150729679Bitmain
20 mins ago, we received a very important intelligence and we decide to increase the price of S5 by 20%. A certain competitor which we pay attention has not submit any mass production order to its wafer supplier. Only a small batch of pilot run has been submitted before the Chinese New Year. It has confirmed a long but uncertain guess that the aggressiveness get in trouble. The best time for mining bitcoin comes right now.
Is this is confirmed then yes, it would appear that ASIC MINER is finished and Fried Cat's return is trivial. The allegations that Fried Cat was bleeding out the company over the previous 1.5 years probably has validity to it now as well. Bitmain was posted on their Facebook account that they heard news a major competitor never submitted their new chip for mass production, and in turn Bitmain is now jacking up the price on the S5 by 20%, due to lack of ASIC MINER competition with no Gen4.
Wasn't Bitmain the company Fried Cat was being accused of bleeding ASCI MINER into?
yup and who knows, if you cant beat them.. join them.