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Re: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It
by
Equilux
on 27/12/2013, 23:35:06 UTC
Eta for next gen tape-out is jan 20th

Which does not mean next gen chips will be available then, in case that's what some of you were thinking. Sample chips will arrive about 2-3 months after tape out. For example, HashFast taped-out on 2013-09-05, the first wafers were completed on 2013-11-08, and sample chips were received on 2013-12-01.

So, next gen AM chips will likely be ready in March/April.

It is not really fair to compare asicminer to hashfast. However march/april does seem like a reasonable estimate for gen3 deployment.

I'm not comparing AM to HashFast, I'm just showing how long it typically takes for foundries to produce the wafers and for those wafers to be packaged into chips. The process is pretty much out of AM's or HashFast's hands until they get the samples back.


Wans't the tape-out from KnC 3 weeks before they delivered a working product? Or am I misremembering?