Quote from: RiceMiner69 on February 05, 2019, 05:47:48 PM

You guys are shipping in Q3 of this year? It would help us all who are interested if you would tell us what you will actually be shipping at what price point and what software we will/may need......

The details you have given are quite vague.

Thanks

Thank you for your comments Rice Miner.

We are doing our best to get the product out in the second half of 2019, but the delivery date is dependent on many factors, not the least of which is booking an available slot on the fab line. These are scheduled many months in advance, and we can't even begin this process until we complete our funding raise. So there are some unknowns here, but second half of 2019 is an aggressive target we are working hard to meet.

The first board we are shipping is basically what is described in our whitepaper. It is going to be a PCIe card that is essentially a replacement for GPUs in today's rigs. We want to help people reuse as much of their current infrastructure as they can. Since we don't have final silicon and wafer yields, we can not give exact prices, but we recognize there is a pricing barrier for many at around $2000 and are doing everything we can to keep the entry cost below that. That is for HMC-100, which offers performance of around 1 GHash/sec on Ethash, about half that on ProgPOW, around 25KHash on Cryptonight v8 (we keep increasing this slightly with efficiency improvements), and dramatically improved performance on all Equihash variants which we haven't finished characterizing yet. The card will ship with at least those algorithms above ready to go, and other variants will be added as fast as possible.

We understand many of you have existing mining solutions with user interfaces that you like and are comfortable with, so we intend to release an SDK that will allow all the existing software suppliers to support the architecture. This will give people an easy upgrade path and make the transition as painless as possible. We are aware of the possibility for this tech to allow 51% attacks on some smaller coins, so as we get closer we will try to work closely with the mining community to make sure that strategies are in place to mitigate this possibility until the hardware become ubiquitous and easily available to everyone.

We will also simultaneously release a complete industrial mining chassis including 4 of the cards above for those who just want a plug and play solution. You can expect the performance of that to be 4 times the performance of a single card.

Since we want to support the developer and VAR community, you may find there is more give and take here than is typical with other equipment manufacturers. We want to avoid the situation where we are dictating to you, and would prefer instead to support the industry with what they want and need. But we can not put the genie back in the bottle. If we don't make this product, someone else will. GPUs are going away except in special circumstances, such as mining for virtual items during game play.

Any other questions or comments, please speak up.

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