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It's obvious that everyone will try to grab their hands-on the latest 7nm chips which is less than half the current 16nm ones by bitmain. Avalon or S9s may go complementary when these will be out but after they enter the market, mining will no longer be a piece of cake for common people as those Giants in this industry are now here to stack up their wallets with the best hardwares and there will be Monopoly for sure for such entities where their money will speak for them.
What vital parts of this thread have you not read/understood?
The technology behind the low node chips - INCLUDING the current 16/14nm nodes - is geared for
low power (typically meaning mobile) applications. A large part of the problems with 16/14nm being unstable is because of the miner makers pushing >10w into chips with over 2k cores in them using process technology that is optimized for far lower power. As in less than 1W sustained and average of less than 500mw. The physical structures are being pushed to the max right now.
10nm and lower - assuming Bitmain et al continue their historic design philosophy of packing in as many cores as possible in into these massively expensive chips in turn pushing thermals to the max, I foresee terrible troubles...
Will they finally take a more conservative approach? They really have to but if they do it will be accompanied by much kicking and screaming because to them -
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