Re: 20nm asic miner technology

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

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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.

I also face-palm when I agree with someone and say 'yea right, and don't you also hate it when' and they think I'm saying they're doing it. I'm not. The fact that bitfury is more efficient at 55nm is a concrete example of why bragging about 28nm is silly.

Ah, I gotcha now. Sorry I was a bit tired and out of it last night, so when you quoted me, I was like huh? Wink