Re: "Avalon" ASIC mining machine, announcement & pre-order start.
I'm glad to see you enter the asic market, ngzhang.
I'm sure it will be a quality product. Clever move by using open wrt.
Technical questions:
How many asic chips per pcb?
Unit dimensions?
Cgminer has DD WRT support on mipsel chip. Do you foresee any problem with open wrt/chip and cgminer? (This question is better put to the miner dev's, but knowing what type of embedded chip is important)
At ~600W per unit, what heat management solution will be used?
quick answer:
1, our plan is about 15~ 30 very small chips per 60GHs machine. means: 2~4GHs pre chip.
2, will much smaller than a normal MicroATX case. you can just imagine it as a small ITX case.
3, similar controller is already running.
4, forgot the 600Watt number please. but we will design a chip have some "Steampunk style" to handle the heat.
At ~600W per unit, what heat management solution will be used?
I would guess it will be computationally split between 6-10 dies... This would enhance yield. I doubt they would be making 4000mm^2 dies as that's pretty much unheard of. And then those smaller dies would be cooled with $10 HSFs.
maybe more dies. and the heat-sink will about 0.03$/ea. reduce cost is very important.
All these asic preorderings looks like scam. Yes, and the BFL's preorderings also does not look good. There are no photos, no documents, no ID papers, links, prototype tests, nothing, but everybody are in "final stage" and take money.
i understand your worry about. i think now what i have is only my personal reputation but i ensure Avalon project will much transparent than any other project. during Oct. we will have enough technique details. include documents, accurate specs, etc.
Great News!
Hope that the pre-orders get filled!
So we can't pre-order until the websites up?
Hope that the pre-orders get filled!
So we can't pre-order until the websites up?
yep, but please give me your intention by e-mail. it's very important for me to adjust the plan.
3, this ASIC will manufacture by SIMC. 0.11 or 0.13 process.
Couldnt find a company called SIMC (maybe I just suck with google) do you mean SMIC?
sorry, it's a stupid typing mistake..