Antminer S9 Launched by Bitmain, First 16nm Miner Now Available

Excited to share that the Antminer S9 is finally here. This is the first bitcoin miner ever to use a 16nm process chip and with its efficiency of 0.1J/GHs*, it's the most efficient miner out there right now. The S9 delivers a hashrate of 14 Th/s while consuming about 1375 watts* of power. You can place your orders for the initial batch of Antminer S9 at www.bitmaintech.com. They plan to start shipping this first batch from June 12, 2016. We're committed to supporting the bitcoin community and will keep on producing top-notch mining gear. * Note: Results might vary by 7%.

Is there anything even remotely close to this performance? 3x the hash rate for the same power consumption in the same form factor as the S7...

may be the beast of all time

Holy Moses, they did it again. Only problem is ROI with that price tag. We are looking at more than 140 days.

I guess that the price will drop by half in next 3-4 monthes.

paid for 1  https://blockchain.info/address/1M9u3Na7RN1BFSkANRJWgspV1N4n6X54DN https://blockchain.info/tx/7e5239e1e64a53c5fa39aa4fa3a475460fb6dafeb6c0b9e34e5c80f5d644559d goes into the solar array  asap  it would replace 4 avalon 6's  using 1400 watts vs 4000 and it has a confirm cool.

Just grabbed 5 :-) Well, those first 5 units have long since gone to their forever homes...good news is, we have plenty of new Antminer S9 units in stock, along with several other models and PSUs. Check out our inventory at https://www.amazon.com/s?me=A1LBZI6C51C6OJ and https://cryptocrane.com.

Nice. Incredible gear. Wondering if it worth it before the halving?!?

When can we expect to see them on Hashnest?

good gear, overpriced. fools buy

watchin' , might grab 1 just for fun but B1 .. hmmmmm might wait out tbh

Exactly,with the halving coming,who knows what the price of BTC will be.......at $2100 + shipping,not so sure it'll ROI even in that time frame   Oh crap,I said ROI,now I'm a business as per KnC specs   Pretty impressive though    Congrats Bitmain!!!   BTC @ $542.61, Difficulty 199312067531, Network total 1378393.330 Thash/s per Day   0.03532496 BTC   $19.17 per Week   0.24727473 BTC   $134.17 per Month   1.07520353 BTC   $583.42

Here goes nothing... (Remembering Batch 1 of the S7 eh Phil?) It's just money, right?

I picked one up this is nice i have limited space for miners these days so I like the compact form factor and same power draw as my S7

Indeed.. My brother and I were just talking about starting up a mini mining operation.. I said wait on a miner to be released and well.. here we are...

Not sure what they have in mind for the controller board? It's populated for 4 Hash Boards and 2 Fans but has provision for 20 Hash Boards and 10 Fans... Each of the 3 Hash boards has 63 chips arranged as 21 nodes of 3 chips, and looks to be the same design as the 135 chip S7 with a Buck Converter feeding the string. If the voltage fed to the string was the same as the S7 at 10.5V this would give a core voltage of 0.5V / Chip. Rich

Very nice, congrats bitmain! Personally I'll be letting the halving dust settle before I buy any more ASICs.

Yeah, same here... by that time, those asics might cost ~ 2btc

Very, very nice! Game over BitFury

Impressive... probably will wait until at least batch 2 or 3 to see where the price falls. I got sucked into Batch 1 S7 and that price changed quickly...