This is hilarious... I actually have some BFL hardware and even I think this means they are finished.. They are obviously trying to move payments to a medium that cant be refunded (bitcoin or wire xfer). They are using a design which alot of us *know* cannot dissipate that much heat, and they are moving at a snail's pace with current orders.
Guys... Ive never said this before, but i believe they are on the virge of folding and taking anyone who preorders money with them..
Regarding power consumption, Radeon 5970 and 5870 both consume more power than our card does, the very reason we took this design approach.
Regards,
Nasser
Remember when they said this about the Jally while doing simulations and estimating 5 watts only?
Turned out to be closer to 30 watts and the whole thing had to change.
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Now they are talking about 350 watts on a form factor that large companies like AMD and NVidia have trouble cooling and dissipating 250+watts of TDP.
Is it a step up (in theory) if it actually worked on a PCI-e bus? Yes, but is that realistic....nah.
Right now they are quoting close to the same number they used back when the initial design was 65nm. @0.8~1.2 watt per GH/s
Why do they never learn. Even their lead engineer thinks that this is possible and talks as if they already had a prototype.... (Tapeout is in August for those who didn't bother to read)