Just watching, too. BUT Newsletter would be really nice, just to not missing sth. out.  Thanks for your input, we will be rolling out a newsletter in the next few days. Cheers! |
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Who or what is the European part of this company ?
+1 Also, will you actually sell hardware (blades) or shares? Not sure I understand... The business model part mentions that, this is a decision that has not been yet taken. It depends on many still "unknow" factors. EDIT : Further elaborating with this bit from our website : "At the moment we are able to fund a first test run of version 1 IC and continue development of version 2. If v.1 IC test run is successful, we will purchase a run for 100.000 ICs which should yeld about 30 TH/sec in total. We will deploy half of this hashing power for private use and re-sell the remaining stock of ICs in the form of high powered 'blade-like' devices. Income generated will go toward the completion and tape-out of the version 2 IC." The "unknow" factors, refer to the success/failure of first 180nm test run, on the success of which, depends a further, bigger run of ICs. We still need to iron out some quirks with the preliminar design before we can safely go on tape-out phase, so you should get what i'm talking about, there are many 'chained' events which depend on each other success before we can achieve significant results and talk about selling devices or shares. |
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Who or what is the European part of this company ?
The management, and a member of the technical team specifically. |
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awesome! always good to see new players coming in. anyway keep your design simple guys and don't overstretch yourselves trying to win race in how advanced and latest NM technology you should have.. start with cheapest and fastest route to market which seems to be 130nm so far and once you have the lead sky is the limit. i'm sure most of us here don't care how ugly the board looks like as long as it hashes and stable... If you look at BFL it just got itself way too overstretched trying to win NM die size race... Thanks for the interest so far. We will keep everyone updated about our progress.
Samuel Noi
labcoin.com
Thanks for your input. Our main priority now is finalizing the design and put the ICs with a 180nm feature size in production. |
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Asia Business is who registered our legal entity in Hong Kong and included in the price of company registration you do get a a mail forwarding service, normally you use that for correspondance, until you find and buy/rent your office space. |
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Thanks for the interest so far. We will keep everyone updated about our progress.
Samuel Noi
labcoin.com
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what's the target price for your products? or Hash rate/$?
We won't yet talk about 'prices', but our cost is about 18~20 USD/Ghash for version 1, still just an estimation. Take it with a grain of salt. |
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Interested.
Thanks, i think i've just mailed you because you expressed interest when we posted in the newbies section. Cheers |
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can you please share what's your NRE cost for 180nm process? Just curious if an opensource asic could be crowd funded? Sure. Since we're avoiding most EDA tools licensing costs and going for a MPW process through University channels, our costs are in the figures of 120.000CNY for a test run of chips. EDIT : 120.000 CNY are about 20.000 USD Cheers. comes up to $20k only for a test run, that is quite reasonable, if that is successful you could well design and do wafer and go for chip productions? Yes, it's not including engineering costs too, which are in the ballpark of 10.000 USD, and yes, that's the plan, 180nm full wafers are still affordable and we have good funding. Cheers |
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can you please share what's your NRE cost for 180nm process? Just curious if an opensource asic could be crowd funded? Sure. Since we're avoiding most EDA tools licensing costs and going for a MPW process through University channels, our costs are in the figures of 120.000CNY for a test run of chips. EDIT : 120.000 CNY are about 20.000 USD Cheers. |
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From your website: 0.18 um (micrometers) /180nm (nanometers) die size custom design.  Maybe you meant feature size. Sorry, some typos here and there, will be fixed shortly. Thanks for the head-up. I clearly meant feature size. I'm not one of the engineers but i'm in charge of creating the text contents you are reading, so you may encounter some small quirks like that one, the text will be fixed properly anyways in due time. EDIT : Fixed all instances of the typo. Cheers |
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Dear Bitcoin Community, We are a new venture involved in the research and development of a novel Bitcoin mining technologies. Our brand name is labcoin and our website is http://www.labcoin.com. The management company is named "iTec Pro Limited" - Hong Kong, legally and officially registered in such jurisdiction. This is initially a self-funded venture, so this thread is not meant to sell "pre-orders" or the likes. Rather, it is a mean for the community to evaluate our work and plans for a eventual, future second phase, when we will open investment opportunities to the public. I won't post many images of IC and similar here, as a fair number of details can be found on our website, once again, our url is http://www.labcoin.com. We look forward for constructive feedback and criticism. You can contact us with any question at info@labcoin.com or post in this thread. Thank you sincerely for your time. Note : the pictures shown on our home page are just 3D renderings of possible case and board design and they do not represent real products. Samuel Noi Nominee Director iTec-Pro Limited sam.noi@labcoin.com |
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Dear Administrators, Requesting to be whitelisted to post important updates about our ASIC project in the proper sections. We are not taking any pre-orders or any kind of up-front money and do not need any kind of financing. Nevertheless,we believe our announcement will be of some interest for the community. I will add a teaser : We will be giving away some (limited amount) free USB devices similar to Block eruptors USB of ASICMINER in early,mid August. Thanks for your attention Samuel Noi CEO Labcoin Limited Hong Kong http://www.labcoin.com |
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I want one!
I can compare it to my ASIC USB miners.
Your own chips??
Yes our own "preliminar design"chips. |
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Dear Administrators, Requesting to be whitelisted to post important updates about our ASIC project in the proper sections. We are not taking any pre-orders or any kind of up-front money and do not need any kind of financing. Nevertheless,we believe our announcement will be of some interest for the community. I will add a teaser : We will be giving away some (limited amount) free USB devices similar to Block eruptors USB of ASICMINER in early,mid August. Thanks for your attention Samuel Noi CEO Labcoin Limited Hong Kong http://www.labcoin.com |
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how many posts to get out the newbie status? thanks & cheers
EDIT :i just saw this
Newbie Restrictions
You can only post in the Newbie and Local sub-forums till you have 5 posts and at least 4 hours on the forum. The other two restrictions are you need 1 post to be able to send a PM and 10 posts to put a link in your sig.
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I don't think I've ever seen the word "soddisfacent" before. Is that english? I see that there is an Italian word that is similar which means "satisfactory". Does that mean you are not looking for investors? Admittedly yes, the word "soddisfacent" doesn't exist in English language. Satisfactory is the right word.thanks for the head up. We are not selling pre-orders, but talks with investors are open, just pm us. Cheers EDIT: spelling |
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Cool, how can I pre-order  ? No pre-orders at all. Read the above edited post. |
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