Announcement: Bitmain launches AntMiner solution, 0.68 J/GH on chip

[stylevhd]

cool!!! i'm look forward... what's the time ready for sale?

[Starlightbreaker]

huh.

seems pretty interesting.

[sushi]

VOLUNTEER

I can be in Beijing or other office in a few days, if you guys let me come visit!!!  (I'm being Serious)

Take a group photos and write about the update as of that day

I can arrive at your office this weekend or early next week at latest.  What do you think?

This is an INTERESTING MINER UNIT & CONCEPT for sure

11/18/2013 is a BIG Day for the Bitcoins in USA.  Should be able to get to China before then!!

[MrTeal]

Very interesting.

Do you plan to do bulk chip sales, and if so when do you plan to release a datasheet documenting the specs and interface with the chip?

Thanks

[GodfatherBond]

Very interesting - if the price will be reasonable!

[bobsag3]

VOLUNTEER

I can be in Beijing or other office in a few days, if you guys let me come visit!!!  (I'm being Serious)

Take a group photos and write about the update as of that day

I can arrive at your office this weekend or early next week at latest.  What do you think?

This is an INTERESTING MINER UNIT & CONCEPT for sure

11/18/2013 is a BIG Day for the Bitcoins in USA.  Should be able to get to China before then!!

Same here.

[philipma1957]

 If it works at under 2 watts a gh at the wall.
If the price is correct .
If the gear ships fast I want some.

Usb sticks   will  sell like mad on USA ebay for the right price.   a .333gh am stick  is selling at 15 usd or more on ebay as I type.
 it these are easy to setup  and can be sold for 60 usd on ebay people will buy them.    If they sell at 90 usd on ebay people will buy the red fury stick for 115 usd.

There have been more then 300,000 am sticks sold on usa ebay.    if these sticks hash at 1.6gh people will want to upgrade.
Ebay is all about price points.  As a seller of  sticks selling this for 60 usd a stick means I need to pay 40 usd a stick. If I sell single sticks.
 If I sell sets of 2 sticks for 120 usd.

  my  cost  could be 45 a stick.  2x 45 = 90 my fees are 9 usd 99 and shipping is 6 usd .   105 for my cost 120 for the sale means I make 15 bucks a sale .     

 I am basing this on 350 usd a BTC.    So if the sticks come out at 50 usd a stick or more  It will be tough to make a profit selling them.
My interest is on the sticks as I know there are 10's of thousands of people running AM sticks. I sold a few thousand sticks on ebay.
I was hoping for red fury sticks to be the new replacement stick but  they are harder to setup. They cost too much and supply is small.  I am hoping you can produce a stick that works well with the correct price.

[BITMAIN]

If it works at under 2 watts a gh at the wall.
If the price is correct .
If the gear ships fast I want some.

Usb sticks   will  sell like mad on USA ebay for the right price.   a .333gh am stick  is selling at 15 usd or more on ebay as I type.
 it these are easy to setup  and can be sold for 60 usd on ebay people will buy them.    If they sell at 90 usd on ebay people will buy the red fury stick for 115 usd.

There have been more then 300,000 am sticks sold on usa ebay.    if these sticks hash at 1.6gh people will want to upgrade.
Ebay is all about price points.  As a seller of  sticks selling this for 60 usd a stick means I need to pay 40 usd a stick. If I sell single sticks.
 If I sell sets of 2 sticks for 120 usd.

  my  cost  could be 45 a stick.  2x 45 = 90 my fees are 9 usd 99 and shipping is 6 usd .   105 for my cost 120 for the sale means I make 15 bucks a sale .     

 I am basing this on 350 usd a BTC.    So if the sticks come out at 50 usd a stick or more  It will be tough to make a profit selling them.
My interest is on the sticks as I know there are 10's of thousands of people running AM sticks. I sold a few thousand sticks on ebay.
I was hoping for red fury sticks to be the new replacement stick but  they are harder to setup. They cost too much and supply is small.  I am hoping you can produce a stick that works well with the correct price.

Philipaman195, thank you very much for you input.

[BITMAIN]

An quick update

In the afternoon of 12nd Nov, After testing the single chip for over 24 hours and the speed in pool are all right, we decided that the chip can work stably alone. We tried lots of voltage-frequency-efficiency combination. Here are some of them:

	Vlotage(V)		Hash Rate(GH/s)		Total power(W)		J/GH
	0.75		1.60		1.07		0.68
	0.85		2.00		1.69		0.85
	1.00		2.50		2.82		1.13
	1.10		2.80		3.70		1.32

From the afternoon of 12nd Nov, we started to test the multiple chain mode of the chip. We worked on it through the night. We slept only 3 hours in the early morning, and got up work again. In this afternoon, we decide that the multiple chain mode works all right.

Below is the photo of the testing board we soldered and assembled. It runs at 1.6GH/s per chip (50GH/s per board), and it does not need fans to be cool ( 60℃ without fans) . However, we will still prefer fans added when it is mining, as the low temperature will help the DC/DC efficiency a lot. We will test the 2.8GH/s per chip(90GH/s per board) tomorrow. A young hardworking engineer is soldering it right now when I post When the chip is running at this speed, efficiency will be 1.32J/GH, but I guess the heat sank we ordered will handle the heat, with very low speed wind. The ambient is 27℃.







 

[andrey82]

Nice ! Keep up the good work.

[zulover]

That looks like great!!! No fan thats a first at those speeds. Does it have ethernet connector built in?

[RoadStress]

An quick update

In the afternoon of 12nd Nov, After testing the single chip for over 24 hours and the speed in pool are all right, we decided that the chip can work stably alone. We tried lots of voltage-frequency-efficiency combination. Here are some of them:

	Vlotage(V)		Hash Rate(GH/s)		Total power(W)		J/GH
	0.75		1.60		1.07		0.68
	0.85		2.00		1.69		0.85
	1.00		2.50		2.82		1.13
	1.10		2.80		3.70		1.32

From the afternoon of 12nd Nov, we started to test the multiple chain mode of the chip. We worked on it through the night. We slept only 3 hours in the early morning, and got up work again. In this afternoon, we decide that the multiple chain mode works all right.

Below is the photo of the testing board we soldered and assembled. It runs at 1.6GH/s per chip (40GH/s per board), and it does not need fans to be cool ( 60℃ without fans) . However, we will still prefer fans added when it is mining, as the low temperature will help the DC/DC efficiency a lot. We will test the 2.8GH/s per chip(90GH/s per board) tomorrow. A young hardworking engineer is soldering it right now when I post When the chip is running at this speed, efficiency will be 1.32J/GH, but I guess the heat sank we ordered will handle the heat, with very low speed wind. The ambient is 27℃.

That's very good news. Now waiting for the right price. Will you sell individual chips or just assembled miners?

[BenTuras]

An quick update

Congrats on this result! Can't wait for the next update

[eyespeakbraille]

very interested, will have to keep an eye on this, please let us know when US distribution is available.

[Despi]

chip 8x8mm?

this one for sure: https://i.imgur.com/5B3WMnQ.jpg

but this one?: https://i.imgur.com/9jNUKvb.jpg

This are not the same chips if I see it correctly!

[CoinHoarder]

Yay, this company looks legit! This would be the most efficient ASIC chip on the market, no?

[fractal02]

Great work.

This would be the most efficient ASIC chip on the market, no?

Yep 

[Gomeler]

Great work.

This would be the most efficient ASIC chip on the market, no?

Yep 

How is this the most efficient? Pretty certain BitFury was demonstrating very low J/GH/s values with very low voltages. Just not practical to run the chips that low given how cheap power is compared to the silicon cost.

Will be interesting to see the $/GH/s and the density. More competition is better.

[junp]

Hallo
I'm ready to buy some!
I've just had a refund from KnC for a late delivery of my Mercury
I hope this will have a good ROI!!!

[jesse11]

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