Dude, bitfury is the lead designer at their shop. If I know anything about the people of bitfuty's calibre I'll say that he will have driver's core already debugged on the simulator before the tapeout. This really isn't looking like another seat-of-the-pants outfit.
Yes. this is why I have not posted.
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Performance: 3.3 GH/s _rated performance_, about 7 GH/s maximum
Power consumption: 1 W at _rated_ performance @ 0.6 V, 6 W _maximum_ performance @ 1.0 V.
Thermal characteristics of package: 2 K / W junction-to-pcb and 34 K / W junction-to-ambient.
I am surprised to see you confirm this ASIC project. Assuming that your bitcointalk.org account wasn't hacked (and I don't think it was, given that I am familiar with your writing style), I withdraw my accusation of this project being a scam.
Also, your power estimate range (1170-3300 Mhash/Joule) is more realistic than what tytus posted (3300-5000 Mhash/Joule).
Anyway. You posted a lot of details, but you didn't say precisely what process node you were targetting. 110nm? 90nm? 65nm?