*sigh* I have better things to do with my time than deal with this. Undecided

My personal opinion:
Nothing indicates to me this is real. Until further notice, I do not advice purchasing this product.

Quote from: asicminer on July 19, 2011, 01:51:36 AM

We used fpga miner as a starting base to develop our design. When we said it is 'compact' we meant it fits into 45K gates.

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our asic has 45K logical gates and gathers 500 Mhash\sec at 120MHz and one cycle per full-hash.

SHA-256, by its very nature, cannot be optimized.⁽¹⁾ The Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner uses 75K Altera Logic Elements to perform a full Bitcoin hash per clock cycle. This translates to somewhere between 225K gates and 975K gates. You say you get ~4 Bitcoin hashes per clock cycle from 45K gates. This is massively incorrect on your part.

(1) For curious parties, SHA-256 itself cannot be optimized. Optimization of SHA-256 is akin to an attack on the algorithm itself. You can, however, provide application specific implementations that exploit constant data in various ways. This applies to Bitcoin, as it does have some constant data fed into the hashing function, but only to a limited extent. The 75K Logic Elements figure I quoted above is already taking advantage of a good majority of these optimizations.