Quote from: finlof on January 29, 2014, 04:03:18 PM

Quote from: minerpart on January 29, 2014, 01:59:12 PM

re: friedcat 40nm

Thats not hard news - far from it. The opening disclaimer says specs and cost and delivery dates are subject to change. In other words this is a theorhetical chip. It hasn't been taped out and he has no funding to have is produced.

Keep bringing us the 'hard news'. lol Its far less substantial than Kens release from last week but lets ignore that shall we?

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Several of yall want to say that ActM most closely resembles ASICMiner because it will be a company that both sells mining equipment as well as mines for themselves. If Ken is indeed going to finally get a chip out there (sometime in the 2nd qtr 2014?) he could do worse than trying to emulate friedcat's communication, organization, business model, etc. you trying to make friedcat out to be either a liar or someone who uses a detailed post to describe his upcoming "theoretical" chip is nothing short of ironic. i am starting to think those who say you are a sock or a Slaughter may be right...

Quote from: minerpart on January 29, 2014, 03:44:58 PM

Quote from: mainline on January 29, 2014, 03:32:34 PM

Please. Let's keep one foot in reality. The guy can't open his eyes for a publicity shot, can't write above grade-school level, and you think he'll hit the theoretical process efficiency?
ROFL.

Reality is ~~Ken~~ Friedcat has taken on ~~2 in-house~~ several engineers who have already proven their metal with a taped out ~~55nm~~ 110nm ~~with excellent specs~~ that has been selling for that last year. So get back into your chair.

FIFY

If we're being honest, FC did a great job giving up the strongest position in ASIC mining BY FAR. I was moderately invested in AM, and made out well by noticing FC's major oversights before the market, en mass, did. There is no excuse for him being so far behind the market. But I digress.

FC's communication has been bad. He has long stints of saying nothing and good luck getting a PM back from him.

As for his business model. Well, that is exactly why the share value of AM dropped through the dirt. His model is erratic. He went from building miners to focusing on a really cool, but probably not very lucrative cooling solution. He had a massive lead on any competition and ended up throwing it all away. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see FC enter the market again. He was a pioneer in this industry, so I'll give him props for that, but his business model went from "ZOMGAMAZINGCOMPANY" to "WTF IS HE THINKING!?!" and now back to "Maybe he can pull this off..."