Hi -
can you tell us any additional info that lets us know who you are, who the asic designers are, so we can become more comfortable with you and your team etc?
Have you taped-out already? when was it? and if you havnt, presumably it must be imminent to be able to deliver by end of november?
These are widely covered in our FAQ and in our website, please read it there you will find all the needed details.
How are you financing the NRE's etc? are you assuming the pre-orders will cover it?
No, we are already financed, that is also explained in the news!
You say on your web site that you have absolutely the best 28nm asic out there, yet your specs dont seem to establish those credentials so can you share how you are 'better' than your competitors?
Pretty easy, our estimations are conservative, not optimistic. We didn't put a lot of efforts in marketing, but we did put a lot of efforts in development
Your power consumption per GH - while good at 0.6 w/gh, is no better than the three most recently announced 28nm entrants (hashfast, cointerra, and bfl) and it could be argued that hashfast and cointerra are claiming theirs chips will use LESS than 0.6W/GH at nominal volt/clock, and you're not saying it will be less, but are saying it will exactly be 0.6W/GH, which makes it sound like your silicon is close but not as low power as theirs. And then youre saying if you undervolt/underclock it then it will have lower power, but that is completely true for any chip ever made, and all the others could claim that as well.
This is at our nominal power usage, if you need better power consumption, you can go in powersave mode and go 0.35 J/GH which is, as far as we know, industry leading. Our low power mode makes use of very low voltage transistors and is optimized for that, this is very different than just undervolting/underclocking the chip!
How are you cooling your chips? if youre going to be substantially overclocking them, like you say on your web site then you must have some pretty serious cooling plans. can you share those?
Aircooling up to Turbo mode, no need for expensive watercooling sets like some other competitors! These are expensive, prone to mechanical failures and bulky.
