Back in the days some may still remember Butterfly Lab , this guys was taking peoples preorders and no refund policy so people who prerecorded from them was forced to wait many months for delivery, Butterfly Lab doesn't exist anymore but history repeat itself . People have to be careful ordering FPGAs the demand is high and the waiting time in some cases could be months.  

Not OP advocate, but FPGA can be reprogrammed and these changes are not a problem to be implemented in FPGA the fact that the devs are putting the FPGAs in the same bag as ASICs makes me question their statement and its pure PR but again time will proof the only thing i can think of they are increasing the "space" requirement for the FPGA to implement the algo not the speed.

On Micron site it doesnt says its discontinued just not in mass production, also for HBM you need interposer because of the number of IO pins which is still an exotic solution anyway the technology exist it may become more viable in the future.

EDIT digikey says its active, but you have a minimum quantity times around $500 thats a lot of money but if i was going to build own FPGA farm will consider this option too.

there could be a surprises with RTX series if mining software devs find a way to utilize the tensor cores, if not the performance bump wont be that impressive considering the price point.   

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/programming-tensor-cores-cuda-9/

Going through the FPGAs board manufacturers came across the HMC(Hybrid Memory Cube) http://static6.arrow.com/aropdfconversion/a034c723e572f45efe84162a58a14f71cedf33fa/hmc_webinar_july_2017.pdf.pdf promising technology basically coupled with UlTraScale FPGA or Intels Aria 10 FPGA you have the bandwidth and capacity to crunch any memory hard algo more efficiently than GPUs and even todays ASICs. Its supper expensive compared to ddr3-4 but in long term investment will return its money

Yeah sure    , bitmain is also preping their new iteration of 7nm chips but they are keeping it secret so they can sale the pile of 16nm chips they accumulated...Next year will be full of 7nm ASIC chips.

Good job guys, adding more algos in the future definitely will attract more attention to the project as alternative to the more expensive solutions for mining. Yeah bringing cheap FPGA solution to the community is not an easy task.

Also have you researched the possibility for example of interlinking two of these chips for mining more demanding algos

RTX2060 is rumored to have a 128bit memory bus, all the new RTX cards have a narrower memory bus compared to the older gen so why RTX2060 should be an exception .

Waiting for a new algo that will work only on RTX cards, RayCoin, GigaRays coin, RTXCoin....

So to be clear to others that reads the thread the OP is not providing a miner just a cloud based mining service after 1 year you can reclaim the "miner" or whatever it is also charging $0.1/kW for electricity

version 0.5 is pushing the cards a little bit more so depend on the overclock or the power supply the rig may be unstable so the TDP and the overclock need to be adjusted but EWBF is the fastest zhash algo miner for now. Bminer is slower and have a fixed devfee.

When it will hit 1 dollar mark it will be good time to buy some.  Good that people are selling it now because new investors will take place . Also chances to hit 100+ dollar mark in the future are even with not

Interesting but i dont see the logic here Xillinx is selling the chip used in these cards on its own for utterly ridiculous price, now they will provide much cheaper source of this chip, if your not interested in crypto mining but you have a product to sell using this chip, buy this card desolder the chip reball it and use it in your own product. I dont see this happening in the long run. Its a great marketing strategy but wont bring big revenue for Xillinx in a long run.

The moment forking becomes a norm ASIC manufacturers will change the tactics that will make changing the algo pointless. Not many realized it still but TSMC 7nm node is opening a huge room for improvisations for the hardware engineers and designers compared to 16nm nodes. So the hardware limitations will became less relevant for the engineers and if a company is looking after the profit they can achieve it. Crypto market is still blooming so the profits in long term will be astronomical. I'm not pro ASIC but we cant rule out the progress these companies will make, just a reminder.

Relying on these expensive card with limited supply is kind of semi failed project, these cards are great for developer but for the average Joe they are useless without proper bitstreams what will guarantee us that bitstreams will be posted over the time for these cards it not like every Hoe and Joe can program them.

If i was a FPGA developer i will target lower end FPGAs like sub $1k,  that will make it more affordable to the public, there are offerings from Altera/Intel thats very interesting for mining research like hardware PCIe controller, memory controller, interface for ethernet already build in and thats like $500-$600 FPGA price range, coupled with QDR memory, ideal miner for Monero(for monero algo we dont need much QDR scratchpad is only 2Megs for now) it doesnt mater it will be slow the key thing is how effective is compared to GPUs if the power consumptions is magnitude lower compared to GPUs well it deserves the affords.

Also we need open hardware , PCB and gerber files to be published so anyone can order the boards and assemble themselves or order assembling to 3rd party. Ordering PCBs to the chinese is dirty cheap these days.

It will get even more interesting sooner or later bitmain will announce a compute chip, which means whatever algo is minable on GPUs will be minable on this chip also, thats how the evolution will go , this will be the end of forking to change the algo it will be useless. This will drive the crypto market to make big shifts a lot of coins will be forced to make an implantation of POS solution or just keep the existing POW algo.

Correct me if im wrong but i think that algos like X16R still can be attacked with ASICs, you dont have to implement all of the algos that this algo is cycling through you just have to pick the once that are for example 3-4 times even more faster on ASIC compared to a GPU with a much less electricity consumed then you mine when blocks with the implemented algos are coming.

Actually thats not exactly true FPGAs require not many external components and for mining you dont use all of the pins so less tracks. Back in the days when mining of bitcoin was possible on an FPGA most of the boards was 4 layers of copper and people managed to produce them quickly, for comparison a typical GPU board is 10-12 layers of copper which is out of scope for a lot of PCB manufacturers still, but anything that is 4 or 6 layers is cheap nowadays.

Also Monero is minable on FPGAs its highly probable that people are mining monero on FPGAs as we speak, of course i'm not a dev and cannot speak for the profitability of the FPGAs  

There is still hope for BTCP holders but in the long run. Its stupid to dump at that price if you want to trade with small margins ok. Will see what will happen when the crypto market start to recover and the prices start to go up once again.

Your forgetting that, ethereum is not the only coin that uses ethash algo , anyway ETC team is considering the idea of reversing the dag file back the 1Gb allowing older video cards to mine it effectively thats their idea to counter ASICs menace, https://twitter.com/eth_classic/status/982566906988118016

Could be not the same chip but something very similar, if you look at the block diagram it resembles very closely GPU without texturing and rasterization units(you dont need these for mining) and pcie bus is moved to an fpga chip. They just have to substitute these "NP" units with something more appropriate for mining.