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Avalon didn't take 12 months to ship, and I know someone who claims to have one of them making money, so they appear to work. Why butterfly labs is so late, I
by qdog 14y ago
Avalon didn't take 12 months to ship, and I know someone who claims to have one of them making money, so they appear to work. Why butterfly labs is so late, I dunno.
If someone with money wanted to build asics for a 51% attack, it's possible. I'm just not sure anyone with money wants to do it right now.
- mrb 14y agoApples vs. Oranges. Avalon built and shipped 20 Thash/s in ~6 months. But it would certainly take 12+ months to do 3500 Thash/s.
- stevenrace 14y agoIt's because they originally designed around a QFN packaged chip - later switching to a flip chip BGA (FCBGA) package. There was (and is) hardware on the market that could be adapted to work - but the folks who sell hardware based AES256 applications tend to deal only in the financial/military circles. Being 'first to market' in btc ASICs didn't seem to be their top priority (much to many peoples dismay).