JHC. Wow.
Personally I chose to forgo the hard drive, and use BAMT on a USB stick.
I don't think scotch tape is ESD safe.
I notice you've still got 2 open slots. :hint: :hint:
No footage of it in action?
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Also by retaining the same listing, the seller won't lose all the "watchers" who have the item saved in their Watch List, where relisting would.
I've done the same thing in my own listings, to keep something from selling out (and ending the listing) when stock levels are low.
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"Sorry Sir, lifetime warranty means the lifetime of the product, since your product is now technically dead, that means the warranty has expired"
"aaaand it`s gone! this line is for people with the money only please step aside!"
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BFL has more exeperience creating ASIC devices? I call BS. They're a market leader in microprocessor design. It says so right on prweb.
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There are limitations on the colors of switches and lamps, i.e. no red LEDs (which indicate danger).
Danger Will Robinson! The agency will attempt to set the unit on fire.
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They must get one helluva discount for them to put up with that for so long. Looks like a shaky foundation.
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Some background information on ASIC production process, before tape out, 3 day before uploading GDS, we fill out a MT form with TSMC detailing the ASIC specific information so they may understand what we are doing. The gallery is here http://imgur.com/a/YOLezWow, 1.3GB of GDS data. That's a lotta bits goin into them thar chips. I hope y'all had them verify a hash of it. Really their form ought to have a field for it. Nice news release. The next news I want to hear is that you have received the prototype chips, and that they are hashing as expected.
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A quick Google search shows that FCC has considered requiring FCC regulations twice, and rejected the idea both times. So, if motherboards don't require FCC certification, then why do ASIC boards?
I have 3 motherboard boxes sitting beside me from Asus, Biostar, and Intel, and all of them have the FCC badge thing printed on them. The way I read the regs, anything with a processor driven by its own clock source needs to go through certification.
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At least Tom's product HAS an ASIC chip.
This assumption is based on an ambiguous statement, and an assumption that the supposed "working prototype" is using the chip they're going to have in the actual device. When asked directly in concrete terms, the question is always ignored. I don't read all of the bASIC threads/news/updates/forums, so if I've missed something, please gently inform me. I'm guessing they don't actually have the final production chips in-hand. If they did, surely they would be telling everyone, no? I understand they had a working prototype based on 2 chips that hashed at 14Ghps each. Then at some point the prototype quit working. They imply that it died of overheating. Source: https://www.btcfpga.com/forum/index.php?topic=104.msg818#msg818
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This has already been discussed.
All 3 of the above-mentioned makers have publicly stated that they will not test the devices by mining on MainNet, and will instead use testnet-in-a-box or something similar.
The exception being a brief demonstration planned by Avalon to take place on some well-known pool, to show their product in action.
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Maybe they'll be machined out of billet aluminum (or titanium), like the "unibody" MacBook Pros.
And anodized in purdy colors.
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No.
If they mine with the asics, they will control way more than 51% of the network hashing power. The security of the currency will be undermined, and confidence (and value) will plummet.
Less profit.
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Avalon will be shipping from China.
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I wasn't around when BFL first started advertising their FPGA single, so I've got a question that I'm sure someone in here knows the answer to.
How long did it take for the first Singles to ever start arriving to customers after their initial release date was supposed to happen? 3 months? 6 months?
I think it was remarkably similar to the same timeline a year ago. They were supposed to ship October-ish in 2011, but actually shipped in March of 2012. Furthermore, backlog of orders was only recently caught up on now in November 2012: https://forums.butterflylabs.com/blogs/bfl_jody/41-fpga-orders-all-shipped.html
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meme.. they are everywhere I hate those guys. I usually leave them trapped in their box when I encounter one.
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I think the demonstration event has been mentioned at the first (around late Sep. ?). but please let Yifu to re-explain it later, he is at the meeting in Macau
Which one is you?
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It's utterly pointless to compare a standard-cell design to a full-custom design using transistor count. Even between full-custom designs it's normal to see a 4x variation in area based on the foresight of the architect and the skill of the layout designer. By the way, BFL doesn't use the phrase "full custom" to mean the same thing it means in the industry. By the way, BFL doesn't use the phrase "full custom" to mean the same thing it means in the industry. We don't? Please elaborate. (I'm serious, I'm not being snarky. If we/I am using it incorrectly, then I would like to use the proper term.) Standard-cell ASICs and synthesis-flow ASICs are not considered full-custom chips. The phrase "full y custom" is a BFL-ism that sounds a lot like "truthiness" In fact the third google hit for "fully custom asic" on the entire interweb is BFL which ought to be a hint that it is a contortion of the usual industry terminology... Emphasis mine. (Google "Fully Custom ASIC". 14k results, most of them not BFL. The ones that are BFL? Someone else wrote it. ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83985.0)) Eh? Are you trying to tell us that "Fully Custom ASIC" is the correct term? I think this calls for... http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22Full+Custom%22+ASIC&word2=%22Fully+Custom%22+ASIC
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Isn't there a bitstream out there that achieves 305Mhps per LX150 (BitFury?), or is that vapourware?
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