18-20USD/G seems very reasonable, but price also depends on the date of delivery.
Also, will you open pre-orders?
No we won't accept pre-orders at all.
As I said earlier, we are not sure if we will sell devices
I missed this. If you are here to create hype for your products, why discuss this project here at all if you are not offering it for sale ?
Am I missing something ?
I can certainly appreciate that you are trying to create a new SHA256 ASIC, but not sure of your intentions with posting this thread now.
Actually i like the fact that they announced it here. If they didn't we would wonder why the sudden increase in hashrate from "Unknown". I think knowing all or most ASIC players is a good thing. Also the fact that they won't accept money for pre-orders is another good thing.
@labcoin When do you expect your first chips in hand and when can we expect some kind of prototype? How fast will you go for the v2@65nm and will you use University channels there too? If not then you need some kind of fab relations to put you in the line.
We do expect the first version 1 chips for early August and shortly later a working prototype, and the plan is to tape the version 2 @65nm outside university channels.