[ANN]ASICMiner Publicly Looking for Potential Customers/Partners for New Chips

[Keefe]

For comparison, Bitfury chips use a similar package, and I figure they dissipate about 2.5W in my overvolted rigs with just high-flow fans and no heatsinks. Bitfury chips use thermal pads to dissipate most of the heat through the PCB.

[bitcoiner49er]

Replacement boards for the ASICminer Cube?

[novello]

Wattage is impresive indeed. But it's still 5W to dissipate from small 8x8 mm package. At least make it flip chip that most of heat can go thru top not bottom and PCB that is poor heat conductor.

EDIT: And please consider possibility of selling small batches of sample chips, like 10 chips.

QFN often has thermal pads on the underside. Connect these with enough vias to an underside copper pour without silkscreen and you've got an effective radiator. Stick a fan over that radiator and you'll suck even more heat away.

That's what I do with my QFNs, but I'm not sure about 5W dissipation. Anyone want to crunch the numbers?

You can put a lot more than 5W through this size of package depending upon how it's mounted. PCB via's won't give a particularly good thermal path, but it is possible to use a copper slug to connect to the die pad (with a suitable square hole in the PCB)  and then connecting to a larger heatsink. That way over 25W can be removed - assuming die size of 5.3 x 5.3mm - with a large enough sink, the trick is in coupling the die, slug and heatsink together.

[Cheshyr]

Email sent.  Hoping to hear from you soon; this is an exciting announcement.  :-)

[RoadStress]

What to expect with the chips
Datasheets and reference PCB design are going to be released as soon as they are ready.

What is the frequency of the chips in normal mode?

[Singlebyte]

Replacement boards for the ASICminer Cube?

How cool would that be!?   

[bitzox]

This is great news!

[minerpumpkin]

Both USD and Bitcoin payments are supported, but the nominal price will be based on USD.
...
0.49$/G-0.99$/G, depending on order size and delivery speed of choice.

Will this price be somehow coupled to the BTC market price?
For example, the price is $0.99 when the BTC price is $1000. Now the BTC price rises to $3000, will the chip price be adjusted to $2.97 or remain at $0.99?
At an increased BTC price the chips would - of course - be worth more and should(?) undergo a correction.

[ssinc]

Messaged! Looking forward to seeing the new chips

[kfactor]

Replacement boards for the ASICminer Cube?

How cool would that be!?  

That would be too good to be true  

[freedomno1]

Woo hoo  
Looking forward to these units

[Xian01]

Can't wait to throw money at Friedcat for this new hotness !!!

[sikke]

next usb miner coming yay

[CroverNo01]

Great news on the chips Friedcat, would be looking to join the team as a reseller for UK and other places.

Good to see you looking publicly for designers and company's to take on board as I'm sure people on here could come up with some pretty good designs.

That fit well into racks or stack plus PSU built in so just a 3 pin kettle would be the ideal future of bitcoin hardware delivery.

Plug and play would make the big sales - If you can get suppliers for each of the stages you will be onto a winner.

Keep us updated as always Friedcat

CroverNo

[Puppet]

Is there a timeframe for this that I missed?

[topminingcontracts]

We are interested, mail sent to you. TMC

[glendall]

The world of Bitcoin is amazing.   From somewhere around 15 BTC a gigahash to 15$ USD a gigahash in less than a year, pretty amazing.

Which I had more capital, would love to be a reseller, I think this product will kick ass.  Good job F.C .

[BKM]

Is there a timeframe for this that I missed?

Yes - there is a timeframe you missed - from OP: "our chips are still on track of delivery in March"

[bitgtr]

Very interested in both OEM and resale (especially the unsliced wafers), PM sent.

[forzendiablo]

finally !