Quote from: senseless on May 28, 2018, 11:50:31 PM

Quote from: cryptaioracle on May 28, 2018, 11:35:03 PM

Quote from: chondo on May 24, 2018, 04:25:34 AM

Quote from: dhouse on May 23, 2018, 03:01:41 PM

these fpga threads are killin' me, can someone just make a plug-and-play fpga miner and sell it to me already?

Couldn't agree more...

We are working on it stealthily.

Who's "we"? You mean "Bitmain"?

Edit: Apologies, I went back and saw your original post on May 8.

Quote from: cryptaioracle on May 28, 2018, 11:20:58 PM

After spending a lot of time in this thread, I met someone that "knows" a fair amount about this topic (arguably, more than anyone else in the entire world...).

According to them, Intel is not planning on flooding anything. Intel has practically liquidated their sales team and only Alterra customer is actually Intel itself. In fact, they are having a lot of problems in the 10nm process and not able to make it work.

Recent releases of their FPGA lines have had numerous technical issues. So if anything, Intel's line is all but dead. Leaving Xilinx as the lion share of the market won't give them much reason to lower prices. What I heard is that if anything, they are raising costs...

So, we need to all keep working on this. But from my intel (pun intended), a lot of the comments about pricing seem overly optimistic...

Yes, their 10nm FPGA are terrible... I'm starting to wonder if it's a vaporware product... Cheesy

All jokes aside, I don't think your friend and us are talking about the same thing. If the situation at Intel is as bad as he believes, comparatively, the situation at Xilinx has to be a lot worse.

That was the second part of the conversation... didn't quite get there yet. I'm hoping for more information to share with the group next week. But the general feed back was "not positive" in terms of the future for these products. Google has their own ASIC's for HPDC, Bitmain seem to be getting into that business too. There are rumors of 7nm coming out next year (potentially)? That doesn't leave a lot left to be said...

On the other hand there is always crypto mining

Who knows if that even makes sense, but at least there are a bunch of people working on it. If I had a goal out of this it wouldn't be to save the FPGA industry. It would be to distribute as much hashing power (and quidproquo energy density thereof) as quickly as possible in a totally and completely decentralized way. Timer... start!