Re: [ActiveMining] The Official Active Mining Discussion Thread
Meanwhile, in a real (IE full custom) 3rd gen ASIC company...
As the ACTM Cheerleaders dither about how best to waste an Avalon refund which belongs to Ken...
HashFast's Golden Nonce GN ASIC successfully taped-out yesterday, Wednesday the 28th, and has been released for 28nm fabrication to a well-known, leading-edge foundry. More details will follow in next week's joint press release.
-John
-John
As the ACTM Cheerleaders dither about how best to waste an Avalon refund which belongs to Ken...
It's kind of awkward that everyone is entering chip fab and are piecing together their prototypes while we're being reminded there's an NDA.
Why is it awkward? Because HashFast managed to tape-out a full custom 28nm chip without a Board of Yes-men?
Or because those Yes-men wasted a lot of money by ignoring me, anchoring their oar-less little canoes in front of my 75,000 horsepower, dual nuclear reactor-powered icebreaker?
There is room for other 28nm players, provided they are full custom. Cointerra will play AMD to Hashfast's Intel. KnC may be the nVidia.
But ACTM is destined to be the Cyrix of Bitcoin ASICs. Sure, they'll spin their wheels and waste a lot of money. But their 386SX ('sucks') chip won't compete with the full custom Golden Nonce which taped out yesterday and is on its merry way to TSMC, Fujitsu, or whatever advanced fab has the honor of making them.
Yes. We are all excited to see them enter the market in December.