[ANN] Bitfury is looking for alpha-testers of first chips! FREE MONEY HERE!

[Dexter770221]

Thats the hope.  5 of intron's boards will be as fast as a KNC Jupiter.

And less power hungry, two times at least. And this is comparision 55nm to 28nm. Imagine what bitfury will do with 28nm process

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[Foofighter]

I think those waiting to buy Bitfury chips may be in for a long wait. As far as I know only Metabank and 100TH will have access to those chips (aside form testers). Does anyone else know otherwise?

What is 100TH?

[AM4Bitcoin]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140366.0

[tytus]

We wanted to send out samples this week but we ran out of chips too fast. It is crucial to estimate the yield of the chip production [number of bad chips] before we assemble mining boards with more than 1 chip. There is a huge difference between 1% broken chips and 3% broken chips if for example 16 chips are placed on 1 board. To assess the error rate we had to treat 1000 chips using the same procedure. This left only a very small amount of chips for independent testers. These were selected by bitfury in advance and will receive few chips in coming days (we start sending tomorrow).

We will have more chips in 2 weeks though and we are ready to sent samples after that. However we can not send the whole production lot as samples to all requests we get. We have to introduce restrictions / barriers for requests otherwise we spend our time packaging small packages and send them around the world. To cover our handling expenses and shipping costs we will provide 5 chips in exchange for 1 BTC, AND we will not ship more than 5 chips to 1 address. Users who present interesting results will receive more chips as part of a separate collaboration deal. We are mostly interested in:
1. getting high hash rates from the chips
2. producing low cost mining devices
3. operating the chips in daisy chain (string) to cut on power regulator costs. [this will be explained later by bitfury]

I will write more about the chip sample program in the next week.

[FlappySocks]

Fantastic news. So you are looking for mass production of low cost miners.

That's good for competition, and good for Bitcoin.

I like where this is heading.

[RoadStress]

Fantastic news. So you are looking for mass production of low cost miners.

That's good for competition, and good for Bitcoin.

I like where this is heading.

+1!

[Stack]

Fantastic news. So you are looking for mass production of low cost miners.

That's good for competition, and good for Bitcoin.

I like where this is heading.

+1!

+1

Let's get these things to Bkk and Burnin! (assuming they have any energy and willpower left after their current projects)

[dan99]

Fantastic news. So you are looking for mass production of low cost miners.

That's good for competition, and good for Bitcoin.

I like where this is heading.

Low costs miners meaning $5 to $10 per gh/s??

[runeks]

Fantastic news. So you are looking for mass production of low cost miners.

That's good for competition, and good for Bitcoin.

I like where this is heading.

Low costs miners meaning $5 to $10 per gh/s??

I think they will be priced at whatever the market is willing to pay for them (which is too much, IMHO).

[ultrix]

I'm just one of the alfa-testers. bitfury asked me to post
the progress I make, so that's what I'm doing here in this
thread. Looks like I'm still the only one doing so:)

intron

Bitfury took my address, however no chips were mailed.   Shame, I bought a fair amount of thin 2oz FR4 for doing a four layer board as the supplier I found locally doesn't sell single ft^2.

[nightyj]

I think that Bitfury have sent chips to you by posts they are not fast as couriers so it will take some time.

[Felipeo]

Fantastic news. So you are looking for mass production of low cost miners.

That's good for competition, and good for Bitcoin.

I like where this is heading.

+1

[bitfury]

I'm just one of the alfa-testers. bitfury asked me to post
the progress I make, so that's what I'm doing here in this
thread. Looks like I'm still the only one doing so:)

intron

Bitfury took my address, however no chips were mailed.   Shame, I bought a fair amount of thin 2oz FR4 for doing a four layer board as the supplier I found locally doesn't sell single ft^2.

I think that you can pick-up some chips from Dave or from Silverpike. And/or maybe wait till next shipment, as right now there's too few amounts of chips and quite difficult to send. Niko likely will send samples later, when more quantities will be available.

[furuknap]

I think that you can pick-up some chips from Dave or from Silverpike. And/or maybe wait till next shipment, as right now there's too few amounts of chips and quite difficult to send. Niko likely will send samples later, when more quantities will be available.

Just to clarify; there is still enough chips on order or scheduled for delivery to cover both the 100TH and Metabank deliveries, right?

.b

[ZPK]

I think that you can pick-up some chips from Dave or from Silverpike. And/or maybe wait till next shipment, as right now there's too few amounts of chips and quite difficult to send. Niko likely will send samples later, when more quantities will be available.

Just to clarify; there is still enough chips on order or scheduled for delivery to cover both the 100TH and Metabank deliveries, right?

.b

+FAN(UA)

[ultrix]

I'm just one of the alfa-testers. bitfury asked me to post
the progress I make, so that's what I'm doing here in this
thread. Looks like I'm still the only one doing so:)

intron

Bitfury took my address, however no chips were mailed.   Shame, I bought a fair amount of thin 2oz FR4 for doing a four layer board as the supplier I found locally doesn't sell single ft^2.

I think that you can pick-up some chips from Dave or from Silverpike. And/or maybe wait till next shipment, as right now there's too few amounts of chips and quite difficult to send. Niko likely will send samples later, when more quantities will be available.

Ok, I'll send them a PM.  Also check your messages, had some observations with regards to your decoupling posts.

[intron]

bitfury started hashing:

2013-06-29 16:17:46,068 INFO proxy getwork_listener._on_submit # [19ms] Share from 'intron_2' accepted, diff 1

Picture of the makeshift miner:



Code is running on the ARM Cortex M3, getting work from
the pool and sending results back using on-board Ethernet.

So bitfury is making btc now:)

intron | c-scape

[Andrey]

bitfury started hashing:

This is going to be spammed anyway, so: congratulations!

[intron]

intron_1 : 4 USB Block Erupters
intron_2 : 1 bitfury ASIC



intron

[runeks]

intron_1 : 4 USB Block Erupters
intron_2 : 1 bitfury ASIC

http://imgur.com/CYF9qEI

intron

Cool! But how can it estimate hash rate without any accepted shares?