Quote from: FFI2013 on June 09, 2018, 09:09:31 PM

Quote from: senseless on June 09, 2018, 08:16:04 PM

Quote from: reb0rn21 on June 09, 2018, 08:12:42 PM

Did you even read what I said, I don`t believe in open source for FPGA expecialy with xx big farms that will pay any developer out there, and we know there are just few ppl that will work on fpga, my personal opinion that just crumbs will be let out, profitable bitsream will be bought and only released when some over the developer head say he can.......

I also would like to be wrong and I hope... time will tell

Do you have anything to substantiate that claim?

I can show you a chat room with 30 fpga devs in it right now feverishly working away to provide bitstreams for the community. What can you show me?

https://discord.gg/M6CyRh

I WILL get these FPGA to GPU pricing; or Xilinx (and Intel) is going to need to get a restraining order against me. I don't know how to give up, ask paypal.

I'm just asking how are fpga any different than asic they are expensive which excludes people from poorer countries getting them plus how is it going to save on power at first maybe but as the hashrate goes up so does difficulty so you need to add more miners also how are you going to get a company selling a 3000-4000 dollar piece of hardware to 700-800 and that's a high priced gpu.
Listen I'm not trying to bust balls here I'm all for power reduction it's the cost and we all know there's going to be greedy devs hiding in 10 or 15% Dev fees it was going on with zec, you look at things different because you have access to fpgas at a cost lower than most and know what your doing with them

FPGA's are different from ASIC, because once you stamp out an ASIC, it's done... You ship it as is... Something changes, or you want to mine another algorithm? Tough... It was printed that way.

FPGA... the FP means FIELD PROGRAMMABLE. Means you dont need special tools to rewrite the function of the gates in the FPGA. The GA means GATE ARRAY.
5 years ahead of GPUs in AI. Actually used to design the GPUs you think are so friggin powerful.

Now we have SINGLE FPGAs that do the work that used to take dozens and even hundreds of CPLDs or FPGAs...

And these simpletons want to live in denial... Oh they can never replace my GPU... They could never do what a CPU can... Bwahahaha...

Stop your self bullshitting.

Also, as to the argument that poorer countries cannot get them? Poorer people cannot get them?
I submit to you, that 3 and 4 generation old FPGAs can be clustered. They can be bussed together, adding SRAM or SyncDRAM to them, (CHEAP, and FAST at those lower clockrates), and a cluster of moderately powered FPGAs could be tasked to do what these 10th generation PLDs can do, just at a slower rate per chip, and with less logic per chip. The bitstream can come from any JEDEC compatible flash device, or even from an MCU running a JEDEC emulation of a flash chip...

Something nearly twice as powerful could be made for 1/3 the cost of the new 10th gen FPGAs, just requiring a little more engineering.

Stop guessing about what you don't understand.