Quote from: hoss on November 02, 2013, 06:07:44 AM

https://tradehill.com/auctions

Zero bids so far - sorta makes me happy/sad at the same time.

Bottom line is even these gen2 55nm chips from avalon can't even hold up to current bitfury 55nm chips

AVALON 55nm GEN2 1.5-1.6 GH/s 2.0W
BITFURY 55nm ASIC chips, Demonstrated performance 2.7 GH/sec @ 0.835V (0.8W/Ghps) (quoting this link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=266235.0 )

For BOTH of the above estimates I have not seen real life 'proof' of values. However, in any case buying form these Avalon G2 chips seem stupid unless they are almost given away for free ( or a perfect drop in replacement for the 110nm chips).

The sad part for me is that I was hoping for an awesome gen2 pin/chip compatible to solder on to my over $4k pre ordered K16 boards. I hear these G2 chips require board modifications! ( can the steamboat camp confirm this? ). In any case I project these new chips would need to come down to about 5BTC per 500chips (now - as in now now before next 100mill diff jump) just to have a potential breakeven on ROI with my pre ordered $4k k16s.

Other thoughts - can we mount BITFURY chips on the K16s?

I will post again after a good night sleep.....

Unfortunately the gen2 chip is not pin compatible with gen1.
I don't see much hope that SB will be able to integrate or make use of the gen2 chips.
Some K16 parts could be used in a new design but I don't see that happening at this point.

Same story for the BITFURY chips.