Quote from: citronick on February 12, 2018, 02:26:04 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on February 12, 2018, 02:04:17 PM

Quote from: vapourminer on February 12, 2018, 12:00:49 PM

Quote from: Last of the V8s on February 12, 2018, 11:27:29 AM

http://news.8btc.com/bitmain-to-release-ethereum-asic-miner-f3-with-72gb-ddr3-dram-in-q2

ouch. that would certainly put some hurt on gpu eth farms. most people were counting on eth not going away from pow for what, another year or so?

So bitmain has decided to call the eth pos bluff.

this will shake up the world of cryptocoins big time.

of course a fork could fork the bitmain asic. I would like to see this play out.

https://coinmarketcap.com/

1 BitcoinBitcoin $147,216,469,090 $8,731.50 $5,965,710,000 16,860,387 BTC 4.25% sparkline

2 EthereumEthereum $84,035,910,402 $861.29 $2,207,890,000 97,569,820 ETH 2.22% sparkline
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Bitmain is about to release F3, the ethereum ASIC miner. Its reported that every miner is mounted with 3 mainboards. On each mainboard there are 6 ASIC processors, each of which has 32 1GB DDR3 memory. Therefore, one unit of F3 miner contains 72 Gigabyte DRAM memory.

The F3 only for ETH mining may not be the full story here... memory heavy algos may benefit too?

Can Bitmain do a multi-algo Baikal miner?

If this machine can be a "gpu miner" it would mean the end of gpu mining. It would result in many issues and completely alter the entire mining world.

The key is how many algos will it do?

And will we have 5 or 10

say

AA3
BB3
CC3
DD3
EE3
FF3
GG3
HH3
II3
JJ3

all of the above do 3 to 5 algos and gpus are killed off.

MY thoughts would be

AMD
NVIDIA
INTEL
Every graphic card builder

and the desktop pc industry would get hurt.

Bitmain needs to step very carefully here.

As a miner for a lot of years I am happy to be mostly in cash at the moment.