Bitcoin Network’s Hashrate Gets a Boost with Updated BitFury 16nm Chip
Veteran ASIC chip producer BitFury announced yesterday via Twitter that they are “finally” coming to market with a 16-nanometer chip which will be, reportedly, the fastest chip on record. According to their own website, the chip will produce up to 180 gigahashes per second, per chip. The news mainly affects ASIC miner producers, since small-scale, consumer-facing sales are not the purview of BitFury. Effectively, this would mean a 1 terrahash rig would only require 6 chips total, massively decreasing the size of future mining hardware. For some perspective, one of the earliest 1 TH/s rigs....
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BitFury, the third-largest mining operation by total hashrate, announced in December that it will be mass-producing its custom 16nm ASIC chip and selling the chip directly to consumers. “Each chip will achieve 40-55 GH/s at the highest possible efficiency of 0.055-0.07 J/GH. From 55 GH/s to 180 GH/s the chop follows nearly linear slop of efficiency from ~0.06 J/GH to 0.2 J/GH,” said Valery Vavilov, CEO of BitFury, in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine . Further, the 16nm chip is capable of running with a power supply voltage of 0.35 V. The cooling mechanism used with these mining chips is....
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....
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....
Bitfury, the best-funded miner through investments has today announced the mass production of its 16nm Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Chip, a project that was in development since the beginning of 2015. Bitcoin mining behemoth BitFury has revealed that it will begin mass production of its 16 nm mining chips following testing that has met expectations. The company revealed 40 gigahash per second design target for the chip, with a power efficiency of 0.06 joules per gigahash, a figure that hasn't been attained in the industry, yet. The company cites "rigorous testing," with....
BitFury has announced it has completed the tape-out for its 16NM ASIC bitcoin mining chips, which were first revealed to be in production in February. The chip will achieve energy efficiency of 0.06 joules per gigahash, compared to the 0.2 joules per gigahash of its 28nm predecessor. BitFury suggested the chip will deliver "four times the compute power" of its previous 28NM chip. The startup, which has so far raised $60m in VC financing, used the announcement to tout its commitment to green energy, the strength of its immersion cooling process and what it called an ability to compete in a....