Re: DIY FPGA Mining rig for any algorithm with fast ROI
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.
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...
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...
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.
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!