a 28nm NRE is several million, plus the first wafer orders (and possibly the second order too if you want more in a reasonable time) plus the first batch of all the parts to make the box.. so you're talking minimum $5m to start production!

-- Jez

In terms of hashrate (and thus wafer starts)



Of course unit volumes will skyrocket, almost no one is even shipping 28nm asics yet,  and current prices are at least an order of magnitude above marginal cost.
Dont tell me you thought the network was about to plateau at 5PH ?

Take a look at the 6970. Eliminate the GPU and GDDR, and whats left is a BOM of $47 excl the asic (but including a load of stuff you dont need). But you think production cost of a monarch would be, how much exactly?

In all likelihood, mobile socs would have lower yields (far less redundancy), more layers, and far more complicated IO. On the flip side, packaging for low wattage might be easier, but if HF could save money by using seperate chips per die, rather than packaging 4 in one MCM, Im pretty sure they would do it. Really, your low estimate is pretty high. Maybe asic vendors now cant reach that low because they dont have the volume to order directly with the fab, but at some point they will.

You have no intelligence to insult.

You are so full of shit I'm surprised nobody has buried you by now.

Nobody cares what you do or don't believe, because you are too stupid to do a simple fact check before accusing others of lying.

Was typing 'CIARA HASHFAST EXCLUSIVE' into Google too difficult, IE an insurmountable challenge for your retarded abilities?

Next time RTFT and get a clue before pulling the Internet Tough Guy act, so you don't get your ignorant whining face torn off again.   

Because you can easily script something yourself using the rpc commands and get all the info you want presented the way you want.
If you don't know how to do it, pay someone. Maybe not the best idea, but it's the most practical one, I think.

does it crash with the original datadir?

Regardless of how they share work each "sub core" completes one hash per clock cycle so it isn't like they are only partial work engines.

So 4 * 96 * 2 = 768 hashes per clock cycle. 
At 550 Mhz that is 768 * 0.550 = 442.4 GH/s.

Tacotime,

When I placed my early batch 1 order, the Dec 31st clause did not exist. It was added later.

Regardless, by law, they are required to issue a refund if requested, as we have prepaid for a product that has not shipped, and is late. I have politely requested a refund, by email, and I received a response from Hashfast denying that request.

Why are they breaking the law?

Yes we're still alive, just been running around the world the bit taking care of business. We apologize for not updating this forum enough, but all and all, there's that saying, "if you don't have anything nice to say, might as well..  you know the rest.

Yes we've been working very hard for the last few weeks, all is good and on track. Boards just arrived, running fine but a bit less than anticipated, we were optimistic hoping to get 64ghs per board, and we still believe we will over the next few weeks, but right now we're really running at 43-44ghs per boardwhich means we'll sink the cost in order to ad extra boards and chips to deliver the per-ordered 128's and 192's ON TIME. That should answer the speculation on that one.

We also built in upgrade options so our cases now have slots to ad extra boards so hopefully you guys will take advantage of that as well. We'll start shipping mid September orders on Monday the 4th. That includes anyone that paid via wire or btc (despite when they paid it) . For the the other guys that ordered end of the September/Early October, your miners will ship from the 4th-8th depending on when you ordered, mid October will ship by the 11th to the 14th, and so on. Making it a total of 24 to 28 days depending on when you ordered, pretty close to like we said give or take a few days. I hope everyone will make some videos and support us after they receive their miners. We'll get our videos together Tomorrow or Wednesday at latest on the 128 and 192.

Also there will be a few other updates coming soon regarding the 28nm chip, methods of payment, things like that. We're most likely not going to work with Paypal anymore because they don't protect us as a Seller nor make our lives anything but ridiculous. We want to be protected as Seller just as much as you want to be protected as a buyer, and according to a few conversations we've had with paypal, our industry is simply not protected.

And live chat is on when we have a few minutes to breath, we can't always be there, its not a 24 hour service. Seriously though we should all thank Jim for going home at night and staying on live chat/handling rhetorical support requests when he can, while Marcy (his patient wife) watches the kids.

We promise to update you a few times over the next few weeks, and at least once a week from this point forward with relevant information.

- AMT

We're going to name a free/paid upgrade after you "RoadStress".

What is the interval between diff increases?

People are finding out it's not as easy to create a brand new product as they would have you believe, that's what's happening.  Even the people using others IP can't bring products to market (Look at Bicknellski's failed ventures) with all of the parts already laid out for them, much less create anything from scratch.

Surprise!  It actually requires skill, commitment and dedication to create a new product and bring it to market.

I received SEPA Transfer for hashrate protection refund and refund for missing PSU for Complete mining Kit order.
Thank you!!!

Our design is working now , so I think AMT will manage to deliver in time

Our Delivery dates range from Oct, 2013 to Dec, 15th depending on the time of the order.

At least he didn't pull a major melt down like Xian... gotta give him props for that at the very least.

As far as exhausting the heat in the case, probably not the best idea, but not a fatal flaw if you have enough air flow in the case itself.  Sometimes you're constrained by the form factor on what you can do.  The best cooling solutions are often the most unwieldy and/or ugly.  Some people don't care about that, but a lot of people do... in fact, there's far more people that care about aesthetics than function, and if you don't believe me, take a look at Apple.  One of the richest companies out there (or the richest?), and it's all built on aesthetics as the primary motivator for their designs.