Musing on a new ASIC for Bitcoin Mining

[miningusa]

Can never have enough ASIC's

[spazcoin]

The power optimization step is so we can judge how many cores to put on a single chip.  You wouldn't want the thing melting after all!  This design is mostly flip-flops which use most of the power in a chip so we need to careful here to get it right!

Agreed, a mining rig that overheats isn't a very useful mining rig.  Did you see the giant heatsink on the Butterfly Labs unit that Ars just unboxed?  It's GIANT!  http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/weve-got-a-butterfly-labs-bitcoin-miner-and-its-pretty-darn-fast/

[m00min]

Another ASIC on the market would be great, I will be very interested to hear your pricing!

Will wait patiently

[toolbag]

I think this is a fantastic idea!

[BitJohn]

I would take one today!

[kittycatman]

if you can beat the price of an old pc + ati card, you've got yourself a customer

[joelnet]

<-- interest level high