Alpha Technology Matches KnCMiner In Price/Hash... And Actually Has Power Consumption Numbers
Yesterday, KnCMiner announced their entrance into the altcoin mining arena with their 100 MH/s Scrypt ASIC. The name they "coined" for their new device was this: The Titan. Despite the lack of power consumption figures for KnCMiner's Titan, hundreds of buyers have already spent over $2 million USD on KnCMiner preorders, according to TechCrunch's John Biggs. Alpha Technology is unfazed. Shortly after KnCMiner's announcement yesterday, they posted a news update to their website promising an update on how Alpha Technology would be "matching competition." Alpha Technology's newest release is....
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Alpha Technology has a new development update and its Viper scrypt board seems to be making headway. The British ASIC maker said it has completed the schematics for the ATX power distribution board and of the AC power metering board. Those of the actual ASIC board are not complete yet, but Alpha said it is "almost" done. In addition, the company has finalised the design of the enclosure and WebGUI user interface. ASIC tape-out initiated. Alpha said it is currently in the process of initiating tape-out at GlobalFoundries. The chip design has been finalised and sent to the foundry for....
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....
J-J's broken KnCMiner Super Jupiter. KnCMiner has started shipping a 3 TH/s Bitcoin mining box, the largest single Bitcoin ASIC miner in existence at the moment. The unfortunate part, though, is that none of these KnCMiner Super Jupiters arrived at their destination in one piece. KnCMiner has responded promptly on their forum, promising to ship new, properly constructed, units to affected customers, free of charge. KnCMiner also emphasized that customers needing to RMA their Super Jupiter would not have to pay return shipping on the existing $10,000 “machine” that was shipped to them; they....
British ASIC designer Alpha Technology has revised the spec for its upcoming Viper scrypt miner, promising a significant speed boost, but also dropping a few features in the process. The hashing power gains are significant: Alpha had originally promised 5 MH/s and 25 MH/s units, but earlier this year it revised those figures to 16 MH/s and 90 MH/s respectively. Now it is promising to deliver 50 MH/s and 250 MH/s - 10 times the original rates. The company says the decision was made after long consideration and lengthy negotiations with its partners, coupled with strong competition in the....
KnCMiner is still in the process of shipping Neptune Bitcoin miners, but now offers cloud hosting. One cloud hosting package gives you 3TH/s for less than $1,000 per month and you do not need to pay for power. Neptunes cost pre-order customers $12,995 and also give you 3TH/s, but you pay for shipping costs, a PSU to power the unit, 16AWG cable upgrades, and power consumption for running the machine. Neptunes only recently started shipping and very simply, most Neptune customers lost five-figure sums of USD by pre-ordering instead of waiting. KnCMiner's business consultant must look....