What do you think about Bitmain new video cards with Tensor Computing Processor

[cryptocoinfarmer]

There are 2 cards that are presented on the website.  
  
                                SC1                                                                                               SC1+
  
 
PDF information link: https://archive.sophon.ai/group1/M00/00/03/L1pcxVoFYWCAe6_tAAfbX4SsZeg272.pdf

[shibob]

I dont think they're suitable for mining because of price. They're tensor computing which aim to support machine & deep learning, so it looks like they have enough money to enter this big part to be a competitor with Nvidia.

[.nuke]

It costs like 1070Ti, but has x4 less performance FPGA and x4 less power consumption, maybe it would be suitable to that data analysis, image processing, AI specialists who wants to save on electricity bills or data centers for ex. This card provides flexible scaleability for such tasks.

[d57heinz]

I dont think they're suitable for mining because of price. They're tensor computing which aim to support machine & deep learning, so it looks like they have enough money to enter this big part to be a competitor with Nvidia.

Honestly it looks like they are going to try to compete with nvidia amd. I’d be willing to bet they mine very well with bitmain drivers.  I’ve been wondering where all the gpu hashing power has been coming from.  They are way greedy on the other asic coins. Nothing makes me think they would do anything different on the gpu coins.  Going to be getting real interesting in 2018😆

BR

[leowonderful]

Mining performance of these cards will be an interesting statistic as these cards are FPGAs but I’m surprised Bitmain is diversifying so much this year into alts and even deep learning. Of all the companies I would have expected to enter the deep learning market Bitmain was probably in the back of my mind.

[Tidsdilatation]

This is very sad news for me. This means Bitmain feels threatned about there ASIC buissnies that they feel they need to pivot becourse they wont make money on ASICs anymore. Means cheaper ASICs for us tho

[Basmic]

Frankly I do not care, they will compete with other manufacturers of the GPU or not. For me it is important to have a great performance and had a large margin of safety. If they have a price 1070ti that it will be difficult to win the competition. To go to the market very difficult without dumping prices.

[Bessta]

I think they are not good for mining.

[Oakey22]

Its something i am interested in watching, if they see a market in GPU mining then we may see a move from china away from Bitcoin to another Alt market. At the end of the day the chinese miners are just chasing profits, they are not interested in the coins values.

[fanatic26]

This is very sad news for me. This means Bitmain feels threatned about there ASIC buissnies that they feel they need to pivot becourse they wont make money on ASICs anymore. Means cheaper ASICs for us tho

You all seem very confused. These arent video cards, they arent made for mining at all. These are deep learning accelerator cards made for a specific purpose that has nothing to do with gaming or mining.

Also to the above comment, what you say has no basis in reality.

1. Large companies routinely have more than one market they service. Nobody said Mitsubishi was getting out of the electronics game because they put out a new automobile.

2. How is making something that has NOTHING TO DO with mining pivoting on their business model? How do you even presume to understand how their business works, going around telling people things that are blatantly false?

3. Again nothing to do with ASICs so no, nothing will be cheaper.

[lunobird]

But bitmain is the devil " dayyy toooc rrrr jerbz"