Quote from: iCEBREAKER on August 15, 2013, 08:05:23 AM

Quote from: somestranger on August 14, 2013, 09:40:52 PM

Quote from: iCEBREAKER on August 14, 2013, 08:18:16 PM

If the Uniquify/Hashfast Official Press Release isn't a big deal and merely confirmation of known info, why is the ACTM Boy's Choir salivating in anticipation of, and howling with impatience for, eASIC to Officially announce their ACTM partnership?

Because they are all in the same building, it was already obvious that they were going to be working together and the press release was largely symbolic. ActiveMining and eASIC are not intrinsically related, so showing the deal is complete would be far more than a symbolic gesture.

Are Hashfast and Uniquify really in the same building? I only ask for confirmation because Vbs said

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Neither of us knows the concrete details.

But seriously, we already have seen signed documentation confirming an ACTM/eASIC agreement.

A press release may strongly imply the NRE has been paid, but wouldn't confirm anything we don't already know.

IDC if 1/200 Uniquify employees had a sad and 1/100 eASIC employees had a warm feels on Glassdoor. Roll Eyes

That kind of corporate phrenology, plus $5, will get you an organic chai maté lattè at the Peet's in San Jose. Wink

Spread all the FUD WRT cooling a big hot chip you like, if it makes you feel better about getting married to the wrong stock. Grin

I've run overclocked 7970s for over a year and know it isn't that hard to dial in a good heat/performance sweet spot. And that's (mostly) with stock air cooling! Hashfast/ice.drill are using liquid cooling, which is far more effective even if they don't know about Vbs' top sekrit phase-changing xenomorphic transdimentional cavitating hypercritical autocalibrating mildly psychic chip goo.

The TDP of a 7970 GHz Edition is 300W, while one HashFast chip is rated at a minimum of 350W. Also, I'm sure each HashFast chip will be built using the same quality processes used on a Tahiti XT2 and will also be using vapour-chamber and/or heat-pipes to cool it, along with a nicely big cooler. I'm sure those come cheap. Roll Eyes

On the other hand one ActM's chip at <15W would be pretty happy even with a low-quality thermal pad and low-quality aluminium heatsink. I'm sure both cooling solutions cost the same, right? Grin

Quote from: iCEBREAKER on August 15, 2013, 10:25:13 AM

Quote from: ffssixtynine on August 15, 2013, 09:54:43 AM

So whatever anyone may think of ActiveMining, a press release from eASIC is a very big deal because it confirms the validity of the offering, validity of the claims from a highly respected ASIC specialist company, and establishment of a business relationship. At the moment we only have Ken's word that eASIC have agreed to anything and nothing confirming a business relationship or that payment has been made.

Note that I haven't commented on HashFast at all and I agree with you regarding employee opinion posts being a poor way to judge a company's output. You can only judge on the output, or if employee opinions change significantly over time (which can sometimes signal an upward or downward change in fortunes).

I agree, the much anticipated eASIC press release will be a BFD for ACTM, just as the Uniquify PR was for ice.drill.

I object to Vbs and others accepting the former while contriving excuses for rejecting the latter.

This was posted on 25th July 2013: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=262052.0

After that letter signed by Uniquify was made public, what's the impact of a PR news posted 2 days ago on Uniquify's website? Almost zero. Kiss