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Re: HashFast announces specs for new ASIC: 400GH/s
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iCEBREAKER
on 31/08/2014, 00:24:52 UTC
Sure, it's so easy to make a 700+ GH/s BTC ASIC that Superstar Chip Designers at Cointerra could barely match 400GH/s.   Roll Eyes

Yes, it is easy. SHA256 is embarrassingly parallel. Making a big fat chip is just copy/paste. It's just a bad idea due to heat density and other issues. That's why companies that did big chips (HF, CT, BFL) had the biggest problems actually building working miners.

We all know BTC mining is trivially parallelizable in theory; nobody is impressed with you dragging out that old chestnut.

What you seem unaware of is the 'more is different' principle, although you came close to finding it with your passing reference to "other issues."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Warren_Anderson

Your most embarrassing omission is leaving KnC off the list of "companies that did big chips."

Of course you had to pointedly ignore KnC, because as the most successful BTC ASIC company ever, their example proves your latter claim demonstrably false.