KnCMiner takes delivery of ASIC boards
Things are getting closer for KnCMiner, the Swedish mining firm that is preparing to ship 28nm boxes next month. The firm has taken delivery of the first boards to go into its ASIC miners, and is hinting that its design may allow for higher hash rates than it is publicising. Each of the boards will contain one ASIC chip, says the company. That would put each chip's hash capacity at a theoretical 100Gh/sec. The firm says that it has overengineered the boards deliberately to cope with 320 W, even though an ASIC will only consume 250 W maximum. "Margins upon margins upon margins is what we....
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