Quote from: Ytterbium on September 13, 2013, 08:05:43 PM

Quote from: drawingthesun on September 13, 2013, 07:55:28 PM

Quote from: Ytterbium on September 13, 2013, 07:49:46 PM

Yeah, obviously it won't happen because cointerra is going to destroy you first. Pff.

They'll also destroy Ice.Drill, of course.

So Cointerra will be superior to ActiveMining?

Look at the difference between bitfury and KnC. Bitfury has better power efficiency, even though they're 55nm and KnC is 28nm. The difference is bitfury is a 'full custom' ASIC while KnC is a standard-cell design.

It's likely that HF and Cointerra are using full custom designs. Their performance is probably pretty similar, and really fast. 16-20x the speed of ActM's FPGA copy design. I doubt it's because they use 16-20 as much die space.

Because they need to mount fewer chips per board, their boards may be cheaper as well.

So Active Mining will never have a proper ASIC, is that what you are saying, and Cointerra do?