sidehack needs to get some of these chips.. 137GH stick miner chip would be nuts.. prob not even possible with USB power
While I probably shouldn't speak for sidehack, I'd be stunned if he was interested at all. I think you can expect the PickAxe ASIC to be a high wattage, BGA monster compared to the Bitmain chips he worked with. We'll need more details, but I think it's safe to say it wouldn't be USB
powered.
140gh, 0.16J/GH, 24w, per chip, so it won't work as USB powered.
Technically you could power the chip from a PSU and still use USB to control it. Think of like a U3 or something where gets it's power externally not from usb but is still controlled by usb. But I doubt they are interested in selling chips at first.
I think they will be using all of them with this monster of a machine. But I could be wrong.