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Hey guys,

What kind of miners are you aware of, may be coming soon?

I know KNC allegedly has finished up their KNC Solar 16nm, but if it's actually happening I don't know, also it's unclear if it'll be sold to the public or only used on their data centers.

It looks like there isn't any miners in the market that will actually be profitable right now.

So what are the expectations for 16nm ASICs?
and besides of KNC are there any other companies working on other solutions?

Thanks for your time.

There is just to much unknowns.  Everyone is hush hush and keeps a lot under wraps.   

We know there will be next gen and multiple chips from different companies.  As far as timeline and if they are sold to general public it's pretty much up in air.

None.    The companies are not looking to send them out right now.

As of now no company has shown working 16nm asics in a machine  in any verifiable test or demo.

By verifiable no one has shipped a review unit to a third party and the third part did a long review and test.

Supposedly we'll have more real info from Bitmain on the rumored S7, by the end of this month. At the present, it's all speculative on a successor to the S5 in terms of specifications, date, and price.

There may be a an actual price on the SFARDS mining hardware next month. Expect it to be high priced.

I wouldn't hold my breath on anything from KNC in terms of mining hardware for purchase. They claim to have 16nm hardware, but there's no verification.

Spondoolies has been pretty quiet.

Of all the things this is one I'm hoping is wrong.   All speculation has lead to a high expected price. 

I would love to have a dual miner again.   I hope they price it fair and not rediclous numbers to order.  They started out fun with contest's and involvement, then got quiet. I'm not sure what to think.

While a "not high priced" SFARDS dual-miner would be interesting, I don't think it's in the cards. While I don't think there is definitive word on the miner, we do have some insight beyond the rumored $129 figure. In the "Group Buy" sub-forum, there  an expected sale of chips next month. The quoted figure is $1199 for 40 chips (i.e. $30/chip). Either the dualminer member is trying to make a killing (getting them for say $5/chip), or SFARDS has a fairly high price on the chip. I think SFARDS really thinks this is a unique/premium chip and wants a premium price.

I think they will be proven wrong, and that there is a miniscule market for a $1000+ Dual Miner at the present time. Of course maybe they are hoping for a big jump in BTC/LTC price.