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

[elasticband]

Sample chips received.  They are real.

sexy talk  build something and send me it so i can send someone some coins 

[klondike_bar]

Sample chips received.  They are real.

what else is known? pictures? will you be able to test them yourself soon?

[_mr_e]

Sample chips received.  They are real.

So what is the difference between the sample chips and the real thing? How far aware from the real thing does this mean we are?

[Chris_Sabian]

Sample chips received.  They are real.

Excellent!  This is great news!

[minerpumpkin]

Sample chips received.  They are real.

So what is the difference between the sample chips and the real thing? How far aware from the real thing does this mean we are?

This is basically "the real thing". When you design chips, you have to spend a lot of money and time before you get the first real chips and can be sure, they actually work the way they should. A rough outline showing the importance of the news: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg5968245#msg5968245
Afterwards you can order them en masse. Production of a batch takes about a month or more.

[_mr_e]

Sample chips received.  They are real.

So what is the difference between the sample chips and the real thing? How far aware from the real thing does this mean we are?

This is basically "the real thing". When you design chips, you have to spend a lot of money and time before you get the first real chips and can be sure, they actually work the way they should. A rough outline showing the importance of the news: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg5968245#msg5968245
Afterwards you can order them en masse. Production of a batch takes about a month or more.

So we're still about a month out before they're ready?

[jimmothy]

Sample chips received.  They are real.

So what is the difference between the sample chips and the real thing? How far aware from the real thing does this mean we are?

This is basically "the real thing". When you design chips, you have to spend a lot of money and time before you get the first real chips and can be sure, they actually work the way they should. A rough outline showing the importance of the news: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg5968245#msg5968245
Afterwards you can order them en masse. Production of a batch takes about a month or more.

So we're still about a month out before they're ready?

Before mass production, yes.

[glendall]

Awesome news. Been waiting a long time, thought these chips a long were coming while back, but always knew that FC would deliver a great product when they did come at last.

[bitcoinarnold]

let's see some numbers

[dogie]

let's see some hashporn

FTFY

[Bicknellski]

EE received chips thank you gentlemen:

from H. Qin, of Shenzhen Shenkelong Ltd, in business zone of the PRC.

We are assuming that they are AM BE200 samples, since they are in a 65 pad package (QFN64).

Specs are nice - 12GH at 4+ Watts

We sure could use another engineer!

Dang!

Anyone interested in working with our team please contact me via pm or email.

[jimmothy]

EE received chips thank you gentlemen:

from Hugo Qin, of Shenzhen Shenkelong Ltd, in business zone of the PRC.

We are assuming that they are AM BE200 samples, since they are in a 65 pad package (QFN64).

Specs are nice - 12GH at 4+ Watts

We sure could use another engineer!

Dang!

Anyone interested in working with our team please contact me via pm or email.

12gh at 4w tested?

Give us the final specs big cat!

[bitfair]

Specs are nice - 12GH at 4+ Watts

Seems right on target, 4 W/12 GH/s is just about 0.35 W/GH/s...

[Bicknellski]

EE received chips thank you gentlemen:

from Hugo Qin, of Shenzhen Shenkelong Ltd, in business zone of the PRC.

We are assuming that they are AM BE200 samples, since they are in a 65 pad package (QFN64).

Specs are nice - 12GH at 4+ Watts

We sure could use another engineer!

Dang!

Anyone interested in working with our team please contact me via pm or email.

12gh at 4w tested?

Give us the final specs big cat!

Just the "specs" included nothing tested yet. We will let you know when we get that far. We will probably look at a quick turnaround USB module solution for testing called "Sting" maybe.

[Dexter770221]

How to get samples and documentation? Thanks.

[OZR]

How to get samples and documentation? Thanks.

Subscribe to the question.

[brontosaurus]

I'm slightly perplexed about this whole scenario. The new chip is without doubt a good idea, especially for the DIY crowd, but what I can't fathom is why prospective buyers would want to use these chips when their manufacturer has made it abundantly clear that they want to sell huge amount of them to 'mining operations with large PCB making capacity'? Surely this is going to dilute any potential future earnings - small players can never hope to compete on economies of scale here, and remember that $0.5/GH or thereabouts is only going to be available to 'huge' volume users.

What an actual system will cost to make will be a lot more.

The net result will be that the network hashing power will go through the roof, and only the big operators will be able to survive.

Comments?

[Franktank]

I'm slightly perplexed about this whole scenario. The new chip is without doubt a good idea, especially for the DIY crowd, but what I can't fathom is why prospective buyers would want to use these chips when their manufacturer has made it abundantly clear that they want to sell huge amount of them to 'mining operations with large PCB making capacity'? Surely this is going to dilute any potential future earnings - small players can never hope to compete on economies of scale here, and remember that $0.5/GH or thereabouts is only going to be available to 'huge' volume users.

What an actual system will cost to make will be a lot more.

The net result will be that the network hashing power will go through the roof, and only the big operators will be able to survive.

Comments?

Some will have access to the appropriate tools and setup to be part of a group buy, get some chips, assemble, and get their miners online before the competition. They're betting that with the initial low cost, they will be ahead of the large scale DIY manufactures, who need to order massive amounts of parts, assemble, and deal with shipping, customer service, and etc and still make a profit.

Plus with KnC, CoinTerra, and HashFast going their current paths, what other alternatives do miners have?

[necro_nemesis]

Comments?

The manufacturer may only sell large quantities directly but there's nothing to say a distributor won't. Will being able to purchase in large quantities be advantageous? Likely since anyone in the supply chain wants their piece of the pie.

[m3whiteknight]

I am interested to buy chips, is there a minimum quantity required ?