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You do realize the whole premise of an application-specific-integrated-circuit is to do one thing the best. If properly architected, an ASIC that does the most
by zanny 13y ago
You do realize the whole premise of an application-specific-integrated-circuit is to do one thing the best. If properly architected, an ASIC that does the most SHA hashing with the least transistors will be the best miner, inherent to the technology.
- aristidb 13y agoThat doesn't mean the designs cannot be improved... And once somebody releases an improved design, the older ASICs become far less useful.
- ohazi 13y agoAt this point, an "improved" design would have to mean algorithmic improvements to a hardware SHA algorithm (i.e. not likely). Improvements that you can actually count on would be die shrinks, but these will provide returns in accordance with the tail end of Moore's law. Compared to the multiple-order-of-magnitude improvements from the CPU -> GPU/FPGA -> ASIC jumps, these improvements likely won't even be worth writing home about.
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