New Mining Chip Developed by SFARDS Becomes Most Efficient Chip Produced
A new digital currency mining chip is being released next week that the manufacturer believes will severely decrease the amount of electricity needed to mine bitcoin, an important factor for miners. According to Marshall Long, the CTO of FinalHash, a mining consulting firm, "these new chips will allow hobbyists to get back in the game. Power to the....
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SFARDS announced they have taped out their 28nm ASIC that will allow miners to mine both SHA-256/Bitcoin and Scrypt coins like Litecoin. The power to gigahash ratio is aggressive according to their press release. They are also shooting for an April release of they miners to both large operations and small miners. SFARDS is a Chinese cryptocurrency mining company, created from the merger between Gridseed and WiiBox. The Gridseed line of miners was very popular starting with the Gridseed 5 chip Orbs then the larger5.2 mh/s Blades. They even jumped up to larger sizes like the Gridseed Black a....
Sfards recently announced the completion of tape out and now are announcing their testing results. The results look good being that the chip is 28nm and processes both SHA-256 and Scrypt algorithms. Formed from Gridseed and WiiBox, Sfards has the dual miner experience from Gridseed as a base with the controller tech of WiiBox. Depending on the density of each unit they could do very well. Released specs from their testing have revealed some decent performance. Completely New Technology, Optimum Power Efficiency SFARDS’ SF3301 fully utilizes the advantages of the FD-SOI technology. This....
Bitmain Technologies Limited, the Beijing-based owner of the Antminer series of bitcoin miners, Hashnest, Antpool and BTC.com, will launch what it calls the world’s most silent multi-terahash bitcoin miner and a silent 2600W PSU designed for high-performance bitcoin mining. With these new products, Bitmain seeks to bring bitcoin mining back to homes and continue decentralizing the bitcoin mining network. Most Power Efficient Chip. The Antminer R4 uses a 16nm BM1387 ASIC chip, which it considers the world’s most power-efficient chip for bitcoin mining. The chip can deliver a hashrate of....
The giant chip maker will present a new “ultra-low-voltage energy-efficient” chip at the upcoming ISSCC conference.
Bitcoin mining giant BitFury has announced it has completed the manufacturing of its anticipated 28nm ASIC chip. BitFury first revealed the development of the chip in the fall of last year, at the time raising $20m in funding for the project from investors including venture capitalist Bill Tai, current BitFury board member and former VeriFone CFO Bob Dykes and the Georgian Co-Investment Fund. CEO Valery Vavilov sought to frame the announcement as part of BitFury's overall drive to keep chip efficiency in line with the rising difficulty of the bitcoin mining network, calling the chip the....