Pico FPGA Hardware Beats GPGPU in Password Cracking

[naima53]

Who ever heard of this hardware? It may be used for mining?
http://vr-zone.com/articles/pico-fpga-hardware-beats-gpgpu-in-password-cracking/16705.html#

[1715332473]

1715332473

[mrb]

I have been in contact with Pico Computing, about a year ago, to investigate mining on their FPGAs. But it turned out that their LX150 boards ($1200+ per LX150) are insanely expensive compared to, say, Ztex (starting around $220 per LX150).

[Coinoisseur]

Yeah, Pico seems to be good at pushing PR and perhaps their support is top notch (only their customers know) but their hardware markup is very high.

[BR0KK]

there even was a small rig manufacture that wanted to build a RIG out of these things. I can't find it anymore