Quote from: MidwestMiner on August 21, 2015, 04:39:51 PM

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Quote from: brontosaurus on August 21, 2015, 11:52:50 AM

Before anyone gets too excited over this development I would wait until you know what the die size is and the operating frequency at quoted power consumption.

I am surprised that they say that full custom poses a higher 'risk' - that's only true for very complex chips like cpu's, not for the very simple (and I mean very simple) functions found in SHA256.

Good luck to them though, anything that puts a spanner in the works of KNC or 21 has to be welcomed.

Well when you're considering laying down nearly 8 figure sums without seeing the chip work first, you better be damn sure its going to work.

Oh, and 'nearly eight figures' Huh

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If Bitmain spend really nearly $10,000,000 NRE for this 28nm ASIC they either have very well paid designers or were completely robbed by TSMC for the masks. Wink

$10 million NRE is 16 nm costs ffs. Of course they didn't drop that on 28 nm Outside of development costs (time/staff) NRE for 28nm is sub $5 million with margin.

Makes you wonder what the price of the first 16 nm miners are going to run to try and make up for the cost, I think 16 nm may be the end of the home miner for a couple of years.