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The Bitcoin Foundation Opens Up Avalon’s First ASIC (bitcoinfoundation.org)
5 points by pelle on Feb 1, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Mining started out with CPU's, then with GPU's, then with FPGA's, and now ASIC's. What's the next technology to make mining an order of magnitude or two more efficient? D-wave computers perhaps? Those cost quite a bit, though.


I'm curious as to where exactly this guy got the funding from. ASICs are not cheap. Even at a um process node, it would still probably come out to around $1m.


They got money from pre-orders (300 units at $1300 each). The Avalon team published their partially obscured contracts with TSMC which showed that the NRE costs were much less: about $200-300k total. And their chips are 110nm.


Are there any rumors about the initial price?


Congratulations on your invention, and a happy Chinese New Year! 恭喜!从西双版纳“新年快乐!” ;) 希望你可以考虑来荷兰参加OHM2013,你会爱那边的风景。




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