Perhaps a cost saving measure.
Perhaps?
It is the single most expensive component on the boards other than possibly the ASIC itself.
$20 ea and removing 4 per board is $80 per board or $320 per Jupiter.
If they shipped 5,000 Jupiters that is $1.6M USD.
I think we can safely say it was definitely.
Do we know around how many units they shipped? I've missed the post. That's money that will go towards their next mask so that's good news
Guesstimating from the 70% of all coins comment means 2.0 PH/s to 2.5 PH/s shipped.
Not sure how money towards the next mask is good news for you or me (unless you own shares in KNC). New mask means potentially superior hardware at an even cheaper price point which means more miners and higher difficulty and less return on our existing hardware.