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Energy efficiency is important (in a server/bitminer and in mobile), but do you have figures for (1) performance; (2) cost? Custom asics would be expensive now
by hyperpallium 9y ago
Energy efficiency is important (in a server/bitminer and in mobile), but do you have figures for (1) performance; (2) cost?
Custom asics would be expensive now, but perhaps... exponential... cost decrease with sufficient demand. A related approach is programmable asics. I've heard this was researched decades ago, but (I presume), silicon was so cheap, so to speak, it wasn't worth it then.
Today, with "peak silicon", perhaps all these discarded tailings will be picked over. To mix mining metaphors.
- nootropicat 9y agoThe only relevant figures I know of are from mining bitcoin. [0]. >A related approach is programmable asics. I've heard this was researched decades ago What do you mean, if not fpgas? [0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparison https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparis...
- hyperpallium 9y agothanks. wait, we're looking at 18,000,000 Mhash/s vs 2568 Mhash/s Like... 4 orders of magnitude? And, 11,000 Mhash/J vs 3 Mhash/J, over 3 ordera of mag, just like you said. yah, fpgas