So just looking at the materials involved... what drives the price and how long before we see competition bringing lower prices?  I imagine R&D, labor/personnel, maybe some factor for intellectual property is driving the current price.  I also seem to recall somewhere that current prices are very low as it is with sales being made near cost.  Then again, cost for that initial R&D can be quite high and cost for competitors -might- be much lower. The m.2 technology is well known with various articles on the topic.  My guess is more pressure from Samsung and companies like Halong...  Bitmain may remain in their comfort zone... or not.  

Why aren’t all cars on the road lambos?

PCIe 3.0 Chips are significantly more expensive, this is the right place on the cost/value curve today. But it is being worked on.

And for all to see that  the date is today the 11th of july 2018

sooooo my concerns were 100% valid  and until today  they were not addressed.

To op thanks for addressing them.

There is no doubt that airsquirrels.com is real and well established.  opened up in 2009

I have yet to find that they endorse squirrelsresearch.com   opened up in 2018

webutation.net of airsquirrels.com



So at op    is it possible  for airsquirrels.com

to mention  it is the parent company of

squirrelsresearch.com

Squirrels Research Labs (SQRL) is a sister company of Squirrels LLC under the Squirrels Inc. umbrella. SQRL focuses on hardware development and research projects that contribute to the overall success of the Squirrels brand.

The founders of Squirrels LLC joined forces in 2008 to form a company called Napkin Studio. Together, they released one of the first 100 apps in the App Store. Napkin Studio created several successful apps and completed contract work for partners from coast to coast.

The company took a new direction in 2012 when it released two of the first screen-mirroring apps – Reflector and AirParrot -- into a large untapped market. The apps were a hit, and Napkin Studio became Squirrels LLC as the founders and employees focused their efforts on wireless collaboration and presentation technology.

So no paypal
No escrow

No cc?

prices are tempting  to say fuck it  I will get one it is not much to lose if he is like dwarfminer.
website has  no contact info.  other then an email.
who is says this:

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So they were built in may of 2018
zero info on the owner  of squirrel
I don't want to attack gpuhoarder
but this is very easily a scam .
I am  not saying it is a scam and I want the gear as much as anyone else.
But where is the protection  for the buyer?
the answer is there is no protection here.
Early in the thread I offered to escrow first batch.  Free of charge!


and this is a less then satisfactory answer

as free escrow service is pretty much as  clear as possible.
And the render is pretty but still no real proof of concept.

This... looks amazing! I do have my doubts, considering the number of scams out there. Hopefully you will take escrow BTC payments or at least PayPal.  

I will take some.
I will offer assistance to op at no charge.
If op needs a pre order run I will do it at no fees for me.
I no longer do escrow but for this project I offer free escrow other then the tx fee.
At op do we need intel CPUs ?
Are higher end CPUs better?

I agree with everything except for FPGAs not having any other use or resale value. If the proper software/bitstreams either exists or can be made, then you can use FPGAs for all sorts of useful things. The resale market is going to be much smaller, but they will still be of interest to people doing specialized work.

As for GPUs, I really hope either rendering or some type of protein folding research becomes a worthy option for GPUs since they're really good at it (at least the high end models).

I finally got a pair of 1080ti's pointed here I am doing about 105 - 107 sols  for the 2 combined.

I am mining at miningpoolhub   is anyone running 1080tis on algo 144_5 and getting around 52-54 sols a card?

losing GPU mining or something similar is going to kill the grassroots "marketing" if you will, of crypto. I would not be here if it was not for GPU mining for one, and I know that is also the case for many others