Weekly Update 2/5/2013
This last week has been very busy with our Project manager and engineers working with eASIC on our 28nm custom chip. We have receive the first results back and the chip is expected to run at 30 GH/s, we are working on improving this number. Also, we have received the quote on our PCIe board and our project manager and engineers are meeting with eASIC and our board engineers this week to keep our project on track. We are also meeting with UMC to finalize our account setup. We are also thinking about going to a 20nm custom chip and skipping the 28nm, if we can get it produced fast enough.
totally meaningless drivel. switching processes increases risk and cost, and changes some of the fundamentals of electronics engineering.
to say 30GH on a chip is also meaningless. KNC, Cointerra, Hashfast all created big-die chips that are capable of 10x that per chip, but use less chips. The important number is how many GH in how small a space
That's why it's kind of laughable how much real estate ActiveMining needs for 10TH/s at the moment. KNC's Neptune will run 3TH/s out of 2.6 cubic feet, rounded up slightly.
I can't be the only person that started scratching my head when it's announced that 10.488TH/s takes up 2 42u racks according to Ken. I know each of my racks takes up between 45-50 cubic feet depending on which rack we're talking about. I have 2 empty racks at the moment but why would I fill them up with 10.488TH/s when I can just buy three Neptunes that I could literally put on my desk?
Regardless, all this information is useless until there's less mindless announcement being spouted out and real chips being produced with real world figures.