Quote from: RocketsFlySohigh on April 24, 2014, 12:06:35 AM

Quote from: s1gs3gv on April 22, 2014, 03:08:52 PM

Quote from: BitcoinEXpress on April 22, 2014, 06:22:52 AM

Based on the current known specs of 28nm technology any array of chips that pumps out a combined total of 300 mhs of scrypt is going to be using right at 6000 watts at 100% efficiency, which again is never going to happen.

This is an interesting conjecture. Can you explain your reasoning in more detail ?

I, too, am really curious as to how you could back up your estimate. Are you assuming there is a minimal amount of transistors you have to use and a minimal amount of reads/writes on a on-chip memory?

Overall energy consumption is affected by many factors. Like layout of the board. for example in an ASIC, you can have memory very close to a processor significantly lowering wattage.

Agreed i think it has many variables. One company is going to try run a modular type design with one power board that feeds a calculation board for better efficiency, also making it upgradeable being it modular.