I believe gen 4 will be better because FC said that AM had identified the problem with gen 3 and had fixed it for gen 4.
And how many new problems will pop up in developing gen 4 that were not in gen 3? The smaller the process you go to, the more issues there are to think about and contend with, and the more unforeseen problems can pop up.
How are any of us supposed to know that?
AM sold more than that in chips alone before April, so it it's a pretty solid assumption that they've sold more than that in chips and miner since April too. They've also been mining for a couple of months too now, and we've seen fairly large sums of BTC being shifted around known AM addresses.
How do you know they sold more than 6Ph/s chips in April? Do you have a proof or are you pulling the numbers out of your...belly?
Also do you know the speed of the self mine or it's out of thin air again? Last that I know Am had 200Th/s on BTCGuid. Haven't saw any other official number yet.
It is proven by the
financial reports released from 27th of May. FC also said in the follow up QA that
most of those sales occurred before May. Based on the data we have (4,450,477 USD from chip sales, 0.5$/G on average from chip sales and 10 Gh/s per chip), AM basically sold around 9 Ph/s worth of chips in April.
No, none of us know how much hashing power the mine has. You already know that so why are you asking?