Update 2/11/2015SF100, the first 28nm Dual-Mode Miner is accepting pre-order nowSfards, the only mining company has received venture capital investment, now announces that its Sha-256 and Script dual mining chip, using FD-SOI technology, is successfully taped-out and has been massively produced in the second quarter of 2015. It’s the only 28nm multi-algorithm chip, supports both Bitcoin and Litecoin (or other crypto currency using script).
Our SF100 miner (with 24 SF3301 chips) has already accomplished scale deployment and sales to big miners and investors. It achieves 1.7THS BTC hashing power (with 720w power consumption), 54MHS LTC (with 250w, power consumption), in total 960w power consumption at wall (based on test with 90% conversion rate power supply unit).
The Script hashing power of SF3301 is one-of-the-kind in global market. Its litecoin return is 3-5 times of its bitcoin return. Using SF100, Investors can have return on two coins at the same time, the feature is very beneficial, especially when litecoin hashing power increasing rate is very low and stable, and next halving is going to be 4 years later, which means by investing SF100, miners and have shorter ROI and longer shelf time.
Sfards has noticed that recent market of crypto currency has been much more dynamic, therefore, we have placed more chips order from foundry.
Sfards now accepts pre-order of chips and miners from global investors, delivery time is January, 2016.
We also have limited amount of chips and miners in stock, please contact us for details, thanks.
For more details, please refer to:
Website:
www.sfards.comIntroduction of chip:
http://www.sfards.com/pro/chipIntroduction of miner:
http://www.sfards.com/pro/minerOpen sources:
https://github.com/sfardsContact:
Email:
info@sfards.com
Please note, Sfards Technology has not authorized any reseller yet, the companies claiming they have chips or miners for sale might be committing fraud. We suggest you only deal with companies or individuals you have complete trust, if you have doubts, please directly contact us to inquire their soundness. http://oi68.tinypic.com/72sx0m.jpghttp://oi64.tinypic.com/s1szv6.jpghttp://oi68.tinypic.com/34of0ba.jpghttp://oi65.tinypic.com/iz1chv.jpghttp://oi68.tinypic.com/rhinav.jpgUpdate 15/7/2015Please Be Careful！！！！
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Update 23/6/2015SF100－the first 28nm Dual-Mode Miner is getting into mass productionWith the experience of developing dual-mode chip and miner manufacturing succeeded from Gridseed, Sfards Technology has successfully developed and produced the first FD-SOI 28nm SHA-256 (Bitcoin) and Scrypt ( Litecoin ) dual-mode mining chip SF3301, in massive scale. After more than one month evaluating, prototyping, and extreme-condition pressure testing, the first 28nm dual-mode miner, SF100, is about to be produced massively.
http://i61.tinypic.com/20rjviu.jpgSF100 dual-mode miner has 24 SF3301 chips, with the running modes as following:
- Dual mining mode, Bitcoin hashing power 1700 GHS + Litecoin hashing power 47 MHS, the power consumption at wall of whole miner is 960W.
- Bitcoin single mining mode: Hashing power 1700 GHS, power consumption 770W.
- Litecoin single mining mode: Hashing power 47 MHS, power consumption 180W.
With 0.45W/GHS + 3.8W/MHS, the power efficiency of SF100 is by far the best in the market. It is also possible to overclock to certain extent (Sha-256: 2T, Scrypt: 55M).
The unique ability of dual-mode mining makes SF100 the best choice of mining community. It offers more choices to dig potentials not only of Bitcoin, but also of Litecoin and other altcoins. For fiat currency investors, dual-mode is good for them because SF100 maximizes their profits; for Bitcoin“fundamentalists”, it’s also preferable since the altcoin revenue helps them to cover the power cost of mining Bitcoin.
Based on recent Bitcoin and Litecoin price, a dual-mode SF100’s revenue equals to a 2.8-3.2T pure Bitcoin miner, which makes it 0.3-0.34W/GHS power efficiency. (Take June 19th price for instance, one SF100 generates 4.2 USD from Bitcoin and 3.8 USD from Litecoin, in total 8 USD per day).
Sfards Technology will be selling SF100 to public on July;
the first batch quantity is limited. The SF3301 chip will be available for sale on August.
If you are interested at our products, please send email to
info@sfards.com Update 26/5/2015The trophy has been sent to everyone's wallet address, please kindly check it. If you have any problem, feel free to PM us. 
Results of “Speaking IMHO”- The Best Miner is…ContestGentlemen and gentlemen, thank you so so so much for your enthusiastic participation and brilliant inspiration!
It is a little pity that in the second day of the contest, the thread was moved to a “Right”section. Many of you don't even have the chance to see it, not to mention bringing any great ideas.
But we still inspired by many amazing ideas over hundreds replies!
In the process of selecting awards, you know your wonderful thoughts brought us a fierce debate. It was a tough call. Ladies from marketing loved the strange and creative ideas, which might represents future Miner and potential of Mining industry. R&D team of course paid more attention to technical feasibility and practicability. After several rounds of deadlock, we finally selected the following 3 awards. Applauds to the winners!
1.The Most Creative Answer Reward: 1 BTCWinner: OgNasty Floor No. 33#
Value: “Lava Lamp”, as soon as this idea appeared, it won our marketing girls’ hearts. Which also got positive professional comments from R&D team. Make use of the heat coming from dual mining of SF3301, it might be melting the waxes in the Lava Lamp!
http://i59.tinypic.com/28v56om.png 2.The Most “Controversial” Design Award: 100 LTCWinner: erre Floor No. 39#
Value: This is really a controversial and inspirational idea, numerous replies prove it. The possibility to implement is another controversial topic.
http://i62.tinypic.com/2rzcvg0.png 3.The Most Market Appealing Design Award: 100 LTCWinner: J4bberwock Floor No. 11#
Value: Winner understands the BTC Mining industry; and amazingly has strong knowledge of software and hardware technology.
http://i57.tinypic.com/2nuksjr.png In order to express thanks to all of your participation, we also selected a critic’s award each day from 12th May to 17th May. Since the thread was moved, we didn’t get as much as expected, but we will still offer the trophy as we promised, congratulations to the lucky guys!
Critics Award List: Trophy: 10 LTCWinner: Floor No. Date
RadekG 50# 12th May
notlist3d 70# 13th May
RadekG 77# 14th May
diodio1 85# 15th May
erre 93# 16th May
erre 101# 17th May
General Award list: Trophy: 1000 Dogecoins louise123
Lucax
Meech
NeuroticFish
notlist3d
OgNasty
pajak666
philipma1957
pinhead666
quakefiend420
Rabinovitch
RadekG
rizkyhiw
sambiohazard
Searing
SFMiner
sirslayer
starsoccer9
Tad3j
Testing Crypto
thevictimofuktyranny
UnklAdM
Zich
In addition, we also got the result of Contest 2: Joining In Facebook. Same congratulations to the following three winners:
1. Most “liked”reply Trophy: 100 LTCWinner: Sebastian Pająk Liked: 42
http://i60.tinypic.com/fbdv9h.png 2. Second “liked”reply Trophy: 50 LTCWinner: Priyatama Mitrajati Liked: 39
http://i62.tinypic.com/33kx81u.png3. Third “liked”reply Trophy: 20 LTCWinner: Priyatama Mitrajati Liked: 21
http://i61.tinypic.com/2lnz8k1.pngGeneral award list: Trophy: 1000 Dogecoins Achmad Afandi
Alexander Riku
Dheddy Il Capitano
Hery Luiz Nazario
József Bertus
Oki Meilisyanto
Ozora Najwa Alvaro
Priyatama Mitrajati
Radek Gronský
Rocker Anfield
Sebastian Pająk
Tadej Brunšek
Please note some guys in the above list haven’t leave their Dogecoin add yet, please remember to do it.
Sfards reserves the rights to interpret the above statement.
Update 13/5/2015Sfards upload the latest programs of SF3301 chips. Welcome to download the resources on GitHub.
More details:
https://github.com/sfards/ASIC-SF3301Update 12/5/2015We are so sorry that our contest thread has been moved to another section, hope you guys keep following our contest! Cheers!https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1057425.0Thank you so so so much for your enthusiastic participation. On the first day of our contest online, we have seen a lot of excellent product concept, some fit for family mining, some fit for big scale farm mining, and there are still some realistic proposal such as a little device of bitcoin full node(Like BITSEED); In addition, we also find some interesting conceptual products such as Tumble dryer, Lava Lamp,ocean wave create electricity miner, hashing the power wasted at your local gym and etc.
We hope more and more people comment on each other's ideas to add details of the products and even to make the ideas can be really developed.
Base on these, we decided to add an special award. You can quote an idea which you interested in and leave your comment there, we will select one critics award per day from the comments on the day, the trophy is 10LTC.
Time is from today to the end of this contest, and there will be 6 Critics Awards waiting for you!
PS: Just remember, all of you guys can also join our second contest in Facebook, let your friends help you forward, and there are still a lot of rewards waiting for you!
Update 11/05/15:Welcome to join our latest contest,
1BTC TROPHY WAITING FOR YOU!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1057425.0Update 04/05/15:SFARDS’ SF3301 sample chip is available on May 4thSFARDS is now selling a few SF3301 development boards and sample chips to developers who wish to customize and build their own hardware.
Sales Information:Sample chip: 200 USD per pack, include two chips (exclude shipping)
Development board set: 400 USD (exclude shipping)
Shipping info: Within 48 hours after full payment (Payment by Bitcoin or USD)
For more questions such as place order or large scale orders, please email
sales@sfards.com or add our skype:
sfardsservice.
Features:Sample chip:
More details about SF3301 chips, please kindly find the datasheet.
https://github.com/sfardsDevelopment board set (includes one dev board, two power supply boards, radiator and fan):
Main Board
SF3301 : 1 chip
Heatsink : heatsink & 12mmx12mm fan
FBB Voltage : +/- 0~1.0V
Communication Interface : RS232 / TTL
Power Supply Board:
Output Voltage Range : 0.5~1.6V
Voltage Step:6.25mV
Max Current : 120A
Update 30/4/15:SFARDS is now opening up the ASIC SF3301's datasheet for developers and anyone interested in the technology. One of our main goals is to allow numerous developers to test our new technology in a variety of environments, allowing for a truer test of the SF3301's boundaries and possibly finding an even more optimal running condition that we have yet discovered.
In addition to this we have made a number of sample chips available, more details including pricing to be released on 4th May.
Datasheet download website as follows:
https://github.com/sfardsUpdate 14/4/15:Thank you all for waiting so patiently, today we'd like to announce some long awaited specifications for the SF3301!
The SF3301 fully utilizes the advantages of the FD-SOI technology. With increased forward body bias the chip is operational at lower voltages while maintaining a higher frequency. The chip boasts impressive power efficiency while affording high hash power, allowing for much lower wastage per hash. The ASIC’s lowest working voltage is 0.45V, with lowest BTC efficiency at 0.19J/GH, and lowest LTC efficiency at 1.75J/MH. In current market conditions compared to other mining technology, dual-algorithm capabilities can provide a clear advantage.
After strenuous testing of the SF3301, we reached hashrates of 152GH/s for SHA-256 and 3.17MH/s for Scrypt.
This month we will also be releasing a number of documents for the SF3301 as open source including the ASIC Development Board designs.
Next month we will release some design specifications for our debut miner.
Additionally in the near future SFARDS will be selling ASIC development boards and sample chips, making the SF3301 accessible to developers who wish to customize and build their own hardware. SFARDS welcomes any and all developers and communities to build upon our technology and contribute to the mining ecosystem.
Please contact
info@sfards.com for more information.
Update 10/3/15:After much hard work we’re happy to announce a brief progress update regarding our debut technology.
Firstly, tape out of our 28nm SF3301 semiconductor is currently underway. We are expecting to release our first miner in April 2015.
The SF3301 is the first of a new generation of dual-algorithm mining chips, the world’s first 28nm with the capability to mine SHA-256 and Scrypt simultaneously. The advantages of this ability translate to an extended period of effectiveness for the miner and increased profitability.
By using FDSOI technology not currently present in any other chip on the market, power efficiency when mining with SHA-256 is predicted to reach below the 0.3 J/GH range, and 2.0 J/MH when mining with Scrypt.
The SF3301 is extremely versatile, allowing you to mine multiple currencies with one device. This means price fluctuations can be harnessed and being forced to turn off your miner is far less likely.
A condition can arise where altcoins are utilized to cover electricity costs while bitcoin is continuously and simultaneously being mined.
This ability is something never seen before with 28nm technology.
Stay tuned for more updates soon!
We are SFARDS.
We are a new player in the bitcoin mining industry but with us we bring some hefty experience in a shiny new wrapper.
Sfards is the result of the recent merger between Gridseed and WiiBox. We are funded by Li Xiao Lai (one of China's most influential bitcoin figures and an avid angel-investor) and have garnered substantial backing from a tier one VC firm.
Through the joining of these two companies we inherited the talent that conceived of the world’s first dual-miner machine. We plan to launch miners that have reached the next stage of ASIC technology in terms of both power and efficiency.
We are also expanding the capabilities of the WiiBox: an open source mining hardware control system.
Sfards will be involved in a few different areas of bitcoin mining. What's in store:
- We are currently working on semiconductor research, and plan to bring to the market some new ASIC technology.
- We plan to use this technology to build mining hardware.
- An innovative hash rate rental platform.
Please check out our website:
www.sfards.comor shoot us an e-mail:
info@sfards.comSocial Media Profiles:
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