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August 20, 2017, 05:38:00 AM

Some deep pockets need to fund reverse engineering that chip. Surely, its worth somebody's while. Or is it?
The chips are hardly anything interesting, looks like Bitmain managed to put the dc-dc converters on-chip which is really smart, but nothing unusual. Their cooling system is basic but it works and they have settled on a frame/interface design that works well enough. Kind of like KNC, except they took the extra plunge to put power on the chips.

The problem is getting the foundry time and selling the product. Too many failures in that regard.

How much investment do you think would be needed to create a competition to Bitmain? 10, 20, 30 millions? Maybe more?

Do you think it is possible that in the near future some corporate like AMD/ATI would enter this market? Wouldn't that crush Bitmain easily?