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Re:Latest Shipment of Avalon ASICs Could Increase Network Ha... by CrunchyJams on Thursday July 11, 2013 @02:45PM (#6028226)
what kind of faster miners are you referring to? ASIC is the best available technology
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Re:Latest Shipment of Avalon ASICs Could Increase Network Ha... by cgi_man on Thursday July 11, 2013 @02:54PM (#6028297)
The chip technology is an older process using 110nm technology. There are already several companies working on 40nm technology which will be more power efficient and be significantly faster per chip.
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Re:Latest Shipment of Avalon ASICs Could Increase Network Ha... by viraptor on Thursday July 11, 2013 @03:08PM (#6028402)
110nm is old news. Butterfly labs do 65 nm and KnC does 28 nm. I guess 110 was a test run really, or they lacked access to plants that could do smaller chips.
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Re:Latest Shipment of Avalon ASICs Could Increase Network Ha... by cgi_man on Thursday July 11, 2013 @03:28PM (#6028546)
The avalon chips the author is describing in the article are 110nm I believe.
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