Bitfury: "16nm... sales to public start shortly"

[sidehack]

Eh, I'm sure there are other people also doing stuff. But let's make sure to let Bitfury know we're banking pretty heavily on their claim to support the community and decentralize and stuff.

[HagssFIN]

UMC 14nm FinFET ready for production in 2Q17
October 27, 2016 http://digitimes.com/news/a20161027PD200.html

UMC will ship 14nm chips to BitFury in small volume in the second quarter of 2017, said the sources, adding that shipments will expand in the following quarter.

BitFury going for a 14nm FinFET chip next year, wow!

[OgNasty]

UMC 14nm FinFET ready for production in 2Q17
October 27, 2016 http://digitimes.com/news/a20161027PD200.html

UMC will ship 14nm chips to BitFury in small volume in the second quarter of 2017, said the sources, adding that shipments will expand in the following quarter.

BitFury going for a 14nm FinFET chip next year, wow!

New chips on schedule before the older ones are made available to the public.  I wonder if their 16nm failed to outperform Bitmain's in real world usage and that is why they went this route.  Hopefully their 14nm is competitive, unlike the 14nm chips that are currently available.

[dogie]

Indeed things are moving. I'll get you some updates next week.

Nevermind next week, next next week has already passed :/

[Unacceptable]

Indeed things are moving. I'll get you some updates next week.

Nevermind next week, next next week has already passed :/

LOL,hold yalls breath!!!!! 

[NotFuzzyWarm]

UMC 14nm FinFET ready for production in 2Q17
October 27, 2016 http://digitimes.com/news/a20161027PD200.html

UMC will ship 14nm chips to BitFury in small volume in the second quarter of 2017, said the sources, adding that shipments will expand in the following quarter.

BitFury going for a 14nm FinFET chip next year, wow!

Hmm. Wonder *who* UMC will use for the fab? Per-their website, they do not have either a 16 much less 14nm fab. http://www.umc.com/English/class_300/c.asp
They only list in-house @ 28nm and (much) bigger nodes. I highly doubt that Samsung would be interested and that leaves Global Foundries with their fab in upstate NY. More specifically, what was the old IBM fab in Fishkill. GloFo licensed parts of Samsung's process so now offer 14nm to all comers.

[Eric Mu]

I had a chance to talk with their head of sales when I was in London in early Oct. Was a bit surprised that they completely abandoned the plan of working with local integration partners and switched to focusing solely on selling thier containers. The thing costs USD 2.5 million per unit and few can afford it (I for one can't ). They are aware of the issue so they aim to target only the large miners who want to "double down". But if you compare the price and performances with Bimain's S9, it is less efficient and more expensive and requires three months of wait time. I talked to some Chinese miners and they showed little interest - as much as I'd like more players around to prevent Bitmain achieving absolute monopoly, it is going to be tough.

[Unacceptable]

I had a chance to talk with their head of sales when I was in London in early Oct. Was a bit surprised that they completely abandoned the plan of working with local integration partners and switched to focusing solely on selling thier containers. The thing costs USD 2.5 million per unit and few can afford it (I for one can't ). They are aware of the issue so they aim to target only the large miners who want to "double down". But if you compare the price and performances with Bimain's S9, it is less efficient and more expensive and requires three months of wait time. I talked to some Chinese miners and they showed little interest - as much as I'd like more players around to prevent Bitmain achieving absolute monopoly, it is going to be tough.

Already a "monopoly".....how much hashrate do the "corp" miners have???

Looks pretty close to 50%  

That's just what we can "see".................

[itsrealfast]

I need CHIPS!!! I've emailed them so many times....its sad they missed the market

[HagssFIN]

I guess so far only Sidehack (user here at the forum, check out his projects), LightningAsic (lightningasic.com) and Hotmine (en.hotmine.io) have been able to get hands on the chips.

[Unacceptable]

I guess so far only Sidehack (user here at the forum, check out his projects), LightningAsic (lightningasic.com) and Hotmine (en.hotmine.io) have been able to get hands on the chips.

Sidehack has received "sample" chips only so far (far as I know).....let's see if he really gets any decent amount,I wouldn't doubt if they choke on the agreed amount & short him............

Not a stab at ya sidehack,I really hope you can pull off a full run of miners  

And as for the others, LightningAsic & Hotmine,how many miners have they sold,how many have they kept in THEIR mine or only to wealthy datacenter mines

Not too sure those 2 have sold very many miners to the public,haven't heard much about em..............  

[sidehack]

Bitfury has reassured me several times that I'll have access, and they've actually shipped me sample chips twice. Punin mentioned on the forum last year that I'd get sample chips and I hadn't even asked for them yet.

Regarding a full run, if I can solve some of my manufacturing problems I'll be a lot closer. And you know I won't be self-mining up the butt because I only have 100KW of datacenter available and most of that is farmed out to hosting customers. Y'all have always been my priority.

[HardwareCollector]

I would like to buy some Bitfury mining hardware new or used. Anyone here know where I can buy some? If so, please PM me.

Thanks

[Micky25]

I could sell you a bunch of these ancient beauties, unfortunately use and value might be restricted to antiques markets, or/and (* squints at your username *) collectors



They where once at €350 a piece. Some people paid over BTC300 for a 400GH Miner Full Kit (August Delivery) .

[ANN] Bitfury ASIC sales in EU and Europe

[HardwareCollector]

I could sell you a bunch of these ancient beauties, unfortunately use and value might be restricted to antiques markets, or/and (* squints at your username *) collectors



They where once at €350 a piece. Some people paid over BTC300 for a 400GH Miner Full Kit (August Delivery) .

[ANN] Bitfury ASIC sales in EU and Europe

PM sent.

Hopefully I will see the Bitfury 16nm Bitcoin miner soon.

[Unacceptable]

I could sell you a bunch of these ancient beauties, unfortunately use and value might be restricted to antiques markets, or/and (* squints at your username *) collectors

https://i.imgur.com/OYoZ6tw.jpg?1

They where once at €350 a piece. Some people paid over BTC300 for a 400GH Miner Full Kit (August Delivery) .

[ANN] Bitfury ASIC sales in EU and Europe

That's a blast from the past!!!!!!  

Yeah bout the same time my 8 month late BFL 30gh miner arrived at my house...........lost my butt on all ASIC miners I bought,cept the used S3+'s I bought  

Oh & all the vid cards I bought were also the only miners to turn a profit 

[sidehack]

The only miner I've paid up-front for (not counting a handful of USB BEs) was an ASICMiner Blade about August 2013. Everything since then was paid for with mining revenues or related handiwork - repairs and upgrades. I can't say all individual miners turned a profit, but mining as a whole was profitable for me until I started putting everything into buying museum stuff instead of viable gear. The only thing I've been openly burned on was a pair of BlackArrow X1 ordered from Minersource, traded up to a pair of Technobit HEX4M boards, which have yet to be delivered or refunded. Not like that's a perfect trifecta of ripoff artists or anything...

I never bought into BitFury gear back in the day, it was always way too expensive. Even before I had industrial power rates at the shop and was mining residential, my rate was below 9 cents so extreme efficiency wasn't really worth it to me - plus I kinda started with about $300. I have some boxes of Bitfury stuff on the museum shelf right now, bought a few HexFury USB miners to compare with my Compacs, got some OneString boards still new in packaging, but that's about it.

[fullzero]

I could sell you a bunch of these ancient beauties, unfortunately use and value might be restricted to antiques markets, or/and (* squints at your username *) collectors



They where once at €350 a piece. Some people paid over BTC300 for a 400GH Miner Full Kit (August Delivery) .

[ANN] Bitfury ASIC sales in EU and Europe

note the v1.2 and connector type (that is a collectors item)

[intron]

I could sell you a bunch of these ancient beauties, unfortunately use and value might be restricted to antiques markets, or/and (* squints at your username *) collectors



They where once at €350 a piece. Some people paid over BTC300 for a 400GH Miner Full Kit (August Delivery) .

[ANN] Bitfury ASIC sales in EU and Europe

note the v1.2 and connector type (that is a collectors item)

:-)

[Gyrsur]

it seems BitFury is heavily in the process of adding hashpower with their new 16nm chips.

they are now no. 1.

EDIT: proof -->

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty





https://blockchain.info/en/pools?timespan=4days





https://blockchain.info/en/pools?timespan=24hours