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The Bitcoin Foundation Opens Up Avalon’s First ASIC
- nextparadigms 14y agoMining started out with CPU's, then with GPU's, then with FPGA's, and now ASIC's. What's the next technology to make mining an order of magnitude or two more efficient? D-wave computers perhaps? Those cost quite a bit, though.
- monological 14y agoI'm curious as to where exactly this guy got the funding from. ASICs are not cheap. Even at a um process node, it would still probably come out to around $1m.
- mrb 14y agoThey got money from pre-orders (300 units at $1300 each). The Avalon team published their partially obscured contracts with TSMC which showed that the NRE costs were much less: about $200-300k total. And their chips are 110nm.
- dfc 14y agoAre there any rumors about the initial price?
- contingencies 14y agoCongratulations on your invention, and a happy Chinese New Year! 恭喜！从西双版纳“新年快乐！” ;) 希望你可以考虑来荷兰参加OHM2013，你会爱那边的风景。