KnCMiner, a provider of Bitcoin mining devices, and fabless ASIC company Alchip Technologies, have announced the availability of what the companies claim is the world's first 28nm Bitcoin mining machine.
This chip design adopts the 28nm advanced node process, with Alchip responsible for the entire SoC design integration. This includes the physical, electrical, timing and thermal design of the project. The design delivers a maximum hash rate of 576Gh/s, and consumes 1w/Gh/s.
"The Bitcoin industry is a progressive new global market, growing faster than anything else we've seen, and KnCMiner is the fastest growing company currently within Bitcoin," said Johnny Shen, president of Alchip. "For our customers, we offer a variety of outstanding comprehensive design analysis, and manufacturing solutions. The partnership with KnCMiner highlights our dedication to demonstrate our exceptional capability for high performance ASIC design and manufacturing in the advanced process node."
"Selecting Alchip as our design and manufacture partner was pivotal to our success. With respect to performance, the result has undeniably eclipsed all of our competitors' products by several magnitudes in terms of power and performance," said Sam Cole, KnCMiner's co-founder. "Unbeknown to the community we are currently developing the next generation product in 20nm/16nm process with Alchip, and we have much more to offer our customers."
Currently almost 70% of all Bitcoins mined today are being created upon KnCMiner hardware, distributed to customers in over 120 countries globally, the companies claimed.
