Quote from: s1gs3gv on May 10, 2018, 02:47:35 PM

Quote from: yrk1957 on May 10, 2018, 10:04:12 AM

Edit: And the irony of this -> Only ASICs will survive.

No. We'll see adaptive algos introduced which favor FPGA's. While FPGA programming may be a specialized skill and it takes time to code up a new algo, the cost and time to market of a FPGA solution will always be a lot less than designing and deploying new ASIC solutions and their energy efficiency (operational cost) will always be better than gpus.

I think there is no reason why fpgas can't be game changers.

I think you are not factoring in the cost of FPGAs.

I looked at x16r / RVN numbers. I estimate about 25$ / FPGA with 10000 on the network. The 5+ months to recover cost. And ten 10000 is conservative, considering x16R has probably 4 times the GPUs on it currently compared to Phi.

Make 20000, and its down to $12/card.

Anyway its in motion, this is not going to end well for GPUs or FPGAs.