HashFast tapes out 400 GH/sec 28 nm mining chip
HashFast has reached the tape-out stage for its 28 nm mining ASIC, and expects chips from TSMC in time to ship boxes by late October. The firm, started by Simon Barber and Eduardo de Castro, is preparing the Baby Jet ASIC miner, which will sell for $5,600, and use its 'Golden Nonce' chip. The chip will provide a nominal 400 GH/sec hash rate, operating at under 1 W per GH/sec. Barber originally envisioned a 65 nm ASIC, but originally failed to raise funding from skeptical investors. When bitcoin prices ramped up earlier this year, the investors got interested, and the firm raised "in the....
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