Wasps & HiveThe Hives (Mother Planes)On board USB hub with a port for each blade.
Upstream port connects to linux board or box.
At least one extra port for potential billboard display or local display & cooling-controller.
On board 24-pin and 6/8 pin connectors for PC power supply (650-750W) provides 3.3, 5, and 12 V.
Last blade connector can accept a server power supply (12V only) for higher power operation, not needed when system is tuned for low-power consumption, or when it has fewer than a full load of blades.
8 available connection points for the Wasps.
Any Wasp no matter the type of the chip will work with the Hives.
All blades driven through USB hub.
Stand-alone hive is just a small card with sockets for power and USB.
Hot swap will be added in 2nd or 3rd iteration of the hive.
Linux embedded system to run cgminer/bfgminer bolts right down onto big mobo.
The Wasps (Blades)Wasps can slot into mother plane.
Wasps can stand alone and be stacked FPGA style.
Wasps are made to fit the mother plane form factor.
Wasps can be independently powered and controlled without mother plane.
28nmA1 WaspBitmine A1 Chips Available Mid to Late December
240 Gh/s Overclocked (6 chips); more likely, with untested chips, 200 GH/s per board
Nominal total 1.920 Th/s, for a single 48 chip hive (assuming that all chips are fully working AND overclock to 40GH - not really likely, but our software can get the most possible out of them).
Nominal likely total hashing from 50 chips (and this is all that Bitmine guarantees) is 48 x 25 = 1.2 TH on 8 boards
Minion WaspBlack Arrow Minion Chips Available Late February
520 Gh/s Standard (4 chips) per Wasp maybe a 6 chip version could be worked out although there are hints higher hash numbers can be achieved per chip according to leaked information from the BA engineers.
8 slots x 520 Gh/s. Nominal total 4.16 Th/s; more likely lower but undetermined yet as to the max / min Gh/s per board.
Prices: Undetermined but you can do rough calculations based on the chip prices for the A1 and Minion and use Asian bog standard board fabrication prices for existing BitFury / Asicminer blades and backplanes as a rough guide.
Note: We will be selling licenses to those who wish to fabricate these boards. We will have a working prototype using BitFury chips by December the 13th, 2013. A1 Wasps could start production as early as Early January, 2014. Minion Wasps could start production as early as Late February and more likely Early March, 2014. Production depends on whether chips are shipped on time by Bitmine and Black Arrow.
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