KnCMiner Deploys Next-Generation 16nm Bitcoin ASIC
Swedish mining hardware firm KnCMiner is deploying a new bitcoin ASIC it says will be a "game changer" for the industry. First announced last November, the 16nm Solar is six times faster than the company's previous 28nm design. Unlike conventional 'flat' chips, its components are stacked three-dimensionally to increase efficiency and processing speed. Sam Cole, KnCMiner's CEO, said in a statement: "We've produced four consecutive all-new chip designs in only two years, exceeding even Moore's Law and we see no signs of this development slowing down going forward." KnCMiner, which raised a....
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BitFury recently announced its completion and roll out of their 16nm ASIC for processing Bitcoin transactions. They are also going to be selling direct to customers large and small, which is a change from the last few generations of their chips. Valery Vavilov the Founder and CEO of BitFury was able to answer a couple questions on the new chip and the....
KnCMiner says it has finalized the design of what should be the world's first 20nm bitcoin ASIC miner. The company is still not saying much about the upcoming ASIC or the rollout schedule, it merely states that the 'tape-out' was achieved only three months after starting the project. The actual tape-out happened sometime in February. In electronics, a tape-out is the last stage of the design cycle for an integrated circuit. KnCMiner teamed up with Alchip and Advanced Semiconductors Technology (AST) to design and produce the chip. The company points out that its first generation ASICs were....
KnCMiner, a company, based in Sweden, has unveiled their new line of Solar chips which will have a 16 nm process. Currently, most updated chips run on a 20 nm process. 20 nm process chips can achieve the efficiency of .7 W per Gh/s. 16 nm chips are believed to improve the efficiency of mining tenfold, resulting in an efficiency of .07 W per Gh/s. With these specifications, a 1.4 KW miner that could be powered by a standard home outlet could mine at 20 Th/s. KnCMiner’s new chips are planned for launch in Q1 of 2015. With rapid improvements in ASICs, Bitcoin miners will need to continually....
Bitcoin blockchain infrastructure provider BitFury Group has officially announced the mass production of the fastest and most effective 16nm Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip ever, that will bring unmatched energy efficiency to the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin mining requires heavy doses of electricity, which has compelled people to raise questions about the environmental impacts of the process. Bloomberg once called Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Disaster. Valery Vavilov, CEO of BitFury, said in the press release: "We are very excited to launch mass production of....