Quote from: vm1990 on April 16, 2013, 06:57:28 PM

Quote from: ihtfp on April 16, 2013, 06:42:12 PM

Hi,
This looks interesting, but I don't think it will be able to compete with the Avalon ASIC. The 64 cores are certainly nice, but a single Avalon ASIC can do 275 Mhash/s.
Even if each Epiphany-IV core can produce one full hash every 640 clock cycles, it will only generate 80 Mhash/s. I'm more of an FPGA/ASIC person, so I'm basing the 640 clock cycles on 10 clocks per individual SHA256, and 64 rounds per hash, which might even be low.
I think it is hard to compete with the Avalon ASIC custom chip, which was custom designed for mining.

Regards,
Pat

Think you might be a bit wrong on some info the butterfly labs chips are the only ones designed from the ground up to be bitcoin mining chips the ASIC ones are just off the shelf ones (hence the reason theres so many on each board)

As more and more time goes by, butterfly labs is really starting to look more and more like a scam, that or, butterfly labs bit off more then they could chew by designing and mass producing an extremely delicate and complicated chip, therefore currently as much as they may want to release their asic minings rigs they're probably having serious reliability issues due to poor engineering from the ground up. All that being said, a worse case scenario, they may have already successfully built all mining rigs for batch/round 1 sales and they're simply mining with them until no longer very profitable todo so. Either way you look at BFL there's just something not right. IMHO