Quote from: armedmilitia on December 04, 2014, 12:47:13 AM

Quote from: MichaelBliss on December 03, 2014, 10:29:38 PM

Quote from: iCEBREAKER on December 03, 2014, 10:11:33 PM

Given AM's disasters with their chip/Prisma/Tube, let's hope they put in the winning bid at the HashFast IP auction tomorrow.

As a direct and indirect shareholder, I would hate to see KnC/BitFury/Cointerra beat them to 4th gen 16nm FinFET ASICS, especially when they have to opportunity to catch up by simply buying HF's GN2 design at a discount.

That would be a crazy twist of events. It's not going to happen, I think we both know that...

I'm interested. Why don't you think it will happen? You never know... Wink

why buy someone else's IP?

The story given by asicminer was that the current gen of chips effectively came in at half of expectations, but for a reason they identified - presumably the next gen will be the same architecture but at the previously-promised ~0.4w/GH