Quote from: mrb on May 18, 2018, 09:02:20 PM

Quote from: mrb on May 16, 2018, 02:57:48 AM

My message brings an update a year later to this thread... but as part of Canaan's IPO announce, 7nm is confirmed for the "second half of 2018", see page 94 of http://www.hkexnews.hk/APP/SEHK/2018/2018051401/Documents/SEHK201805150005.pdf

Specifically they taped out 7nm in April 2018 and final products are arriving in the 3rd quarter (p. 118)

They had revenues of 1296 million RMB (203 million USD) in 2017 (page I-32). I agree they have zero intentions to abandon the Bitcoin mining industry. Working on AI accelerator chips is just a natural way to expand their business into other areas.

Well I think mining farms with 1000 841s. Doing 1000 x 14000 gh = 14,000,000gh or 14,000ph.

Or 1,000,000,000 TV sets with 130gh chip clocked to 100gh = 100,000,000,000 gh or 100,000,000ph.

If you are Avalon what market would you target.

Since Samsung has made decent chips for Halong . I do think for that Samsung wants a chip in every tv they make.

So if I see this as a direct threat to a mining farm you can be certain that Avalon/canaan sees this as a problem. I would think they are talking to TV set companies about chipping TV sets

I would think Sony sees Samsung chipping its screens so Sony would want a chip in their TVs as would Lg.

Tvs are everywhere. Big screens are now cheap and putting in a good 10nm or better yet a good 7nm in larger screens is going to happen.