Quote from: minor_miner on June 26, 2011, 09:59:13 AM

Quote from: Hook^ on June 26, 2011, 07:12:50 AM

The question is when.

And if it can meet the expectations.

I will laugh pretty hard if they end up spending 2 million dollars for 40GH/s or so Grin

The thing is that even if they create a device that generates 100 MH/s for $600 but consumes lets say 25W, its going to outprice the GPU's anyway, because long time the investment will be worth it and the GPU wont be able to stay profitable at 100Mh/s at 25W. Thats a MH/J of 4, and the most efficient GPU's can only do slightly above 2. As people buy more and more of this ASIC's the difficulty go up and at some point the gpu's will generate bitcoins at a rate that wont pay for the electricity they consume.

I dont think the thread for the GPU's is pure hashing power. The problem will be power consumption efficiency.