Quote from: aahzmundus on July 06, 2013, 07:41:50 AM

Either way, I imagine the price of 1btc each, even with the recent USD/BTC events, is far above cost. We can afford to drop the price more, and sell more... at a profit.

Marginal costs are something like $0.8 per chip. Obviously there are other costs involved, but you're correct in that the price can be dropped massively.

Quote from: friedcat on August 09, 2012, 04:45:27 AM

Quote from: Lethos on August 07, 2012, 05:43:18 PM

So ASIC can be quiet cheap when you compare them per individual chip price, but it's a big start up cost for the designer. FPGA's are more expensive individually, but you can do more with them, and on a small scale the cost is easier to pass on without hurting their accounts.

Thanks. Yes, basically the more ASICs are produced, the lower the cost per chip becomes.

Quote from: Lethos on August 07, 2012, 05:43:18 PM

I'd estimate the Block Erupter chips (just the chip) will only be $5-15 a piece ...

In fact, the margin cost per chip is less than $0.8 a piece, that is hopefully $0.8 per GH/s. Of course, if we consider the cost of heat sinks, fans, PCBs, power supplies, and the disperse of the initial NRE cost into each GH/s, it will be significantly higher, but still within a single digit dollars per GH/s.

Quote from: e21 on August 09, 2012, 03:49:25 AM

As it stands now, at the very least it looks like that will be roughly 10MHs:1$ ...

If only considering the whole production cost, it is easy to achieve more than 100MH/s : 1$. The actual market price is another story of course.