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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: 20nm asic miner technology
by
crazyates
on 04/01/2014, 04:18:10 UTC
Lol J/K, but you really are right. It always amazed me how KNC was a 28nm ASIC, and yet the BitFury chips are 55nm and consumed less power (per GHs). What's the advantage of a small 28nm process if a competitors 55nm chip is more efficient, and runs cooler?
(yes, I know the actual answer of how BitFury is more efficient, but I still think it's funny).
I facepalm just a little bit every time I see someone brag that KNC was the first to 28nm. (hell, if you're going to be that liberal: there were people running on 28nm _FPGAs_ a LONG time before KNC shipped Tongue )
Where did I say that KNC was the first to use 28nm? I don't even own any KNC hardware. I was just saying that 28nm SHOULD be more power efficient, but in the case of KNC vs BitFury, they're not.