Quote from: zamans98 on August 12, 2017, 07:42:11 PM

Quote from: kenrom on August 12, 2017, 05:36:51 PM

so any news on the new upcoming LTC miner from bitman

aka L4\L4+

think they be release early next year?

depends on other competitor. seems like nobody out there come close to BITMAIN

so, L3+ will stay here for quite some times.

Perhaps 1,5Gb Scrypt miner is undergoing testing.. who knows

Did you see this?
https://bravenewcoin.com/news/russias-internet-ombudsman-takes-on-chinas-bitcoin-mining-industry/

July, RMC first announced their plans to build mining hardware and hold the ICO. The company reportedly houses chip manufacturing, equipment production including the assembly of the finished hardware, and mining, all within the 220,000 square meter Technopolis facility.

The presentation mentions two new mining hardware devices, with the largest called the Sunrise s11i. It further claims that it is a 16-nanometer design and is now the most powerful mining rig on on the planet in terms of hashing power, with the Best [Return On Investment] in its class, consuming between 2.3-2.5 kW.

Available in September 2017, RMCs document explains, the new rig costs RMC US$1,600 per unit to produce and will deliver 22.6 Th/s of mining power. Of this, 18 Th/s goes to the physical owner while 4.6 Th/s goes towards paying a joint mining club, presumably token owners and RMC.

The leading competitor, from Chinese manufacturer Bitmain, is called the Antminer s9, and costs around US$2,500 for only 14 Th/s. However, the s9 does so more efficiently, with a consumption of only 1.3 kW of energy. Nonetheless, RMC claims that S9s offer a Return On Investment of 12 months, while there S11i is profitable in only 5.

The company states that one of their goals is acquiring market share from Chinese producers, and their centralization. Their neighbors to the south currently dominate the markets for both mining chip manufacturing and mining pools. For instance, all of the top six Bitcoin Mining pools are currently located in China. These pools and several smaller ones in the country represent well over 70 percent of the total Bitcoin hashrate, and the vast majority of their mining hardware was made by Beijing-based Bitmain Technologies.

Also more here:
https://coinjournal.net/putin-ico-chinese-bitcoin-mining/

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-08/russia-launches-100-million-bitcoin-mining-operation

Of course that's for SHA-256 but as Bitmain has shown if you can design ASICs for Bitcoin you can make them for Scrypt and X11 too.