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Quote from: whitefire990 on May 01, 2018, 01:40:54 AM

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If you are interested in acquiring hardware, contact jason.harvey@avnet.com for the VCU1525, or Christian Robichaud of Bittware, for the Bittware XUPP3R-VU9P (crobichaud@bittware.com). Tell them you were referred by Zetheron Technology and you want the cards for crypto-mining and they can expedite the lead time, which is currently around 4 weeks. The intro price (at Avnet) on the VCU1525 is $3995 USD, but it will be going up to around $5K in July.

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Initially I tried contacting avnet to order a board to two to play with but am getting nowhere. I signed their export agreement and every couple of days ask what I need to do to order the hardware but never get an answer to the question.

Same here, no response after signing the agreement. Maybe they are swamped..

same here.

Also I dont get why Lux would want to be FPGA resistant, FPGAs seem awesome.

Most of the people I have spoken with are Anti-ASIC but pro general purpose acceleration hardware (such as FPGAs). There is certainly a group that has a vested interest in keeping their GPU farms running or using existing hardware that users have.

Soon we should have FPGA boards in the realm of GPU costs ($200-600) that everyone could buy. That may sway opinions, but I imagine some will still cling to their GPU centric goals. I cant fault a group for making a decision and sticking to it.