Assuming 0.16 is bottom-clock efficiency, that puts it at about 10% better than BM1385. Not really revolutionary by comparison.
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21 1st gen was TSMC 40nm
21 2nd gen was Intel 22nm, power numbers of about 0.57 J/GH at nominal working point.
21 3rd gen was another Intel 22nm, they aimed for 0.22 J/GH according to their investors materials (taped out 24/8 2014, silicon was expected in November 2014)
I believe this is the 3rd gen. It's very bad number for a Intel 22nn, which is FinFET process.
A quote I liked from their presentation: "Approaching Moore's law: best efficiency is likely ~0.15 W/GH/s @ 14nm"
So funny.
I believe that they're working on TSMC 16nm, or Intel 14nm 4th gen.
They're not doing custom design, taking a standard cell brute force approach.
Look at the "ASIC Design Engineer" job description here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150821050459/https://21.co/#jobsPure waste of funds, IMHO.