Bitmain Unveils the Latest Antminer T9 for Bitcoin Mining

Hey Bitcoin enthusiasts, Exciting news! The new Antminer T9 is officially launched. This miner uses the same 16nm ASIC chip found in the Antminer S9. The T9 can achieve a hashrate of 11.5TH/s and has an efficiency rating of 0.126J/GH, which is a 7% improvement. You can grab yours at this link starting from 11 PM (GMT+8) today (January 17, 2017). Make sure to order soon while supplies last. If you have any questions or need tech support, just hit us up at support.bitmain.com. Happy mining, The Bitmain crew

Any differences between T9 and S9?

It's like the late-S7 batches. The same miner with less chips, little less effiency. The S9 had 2 fans too..

When will the sale come out?

I would have preferred these over the R4's I just purchased - I guess them's the brakes.

Is this the end of S9? new miner will come? may be S10 or S11???

Power Consumption: T9 1450W 11.5TH/s S9 1078W 11TH/s (Batch 22) The big difference for me.

That's a good point - I just realised the additional 29% power the T9 requires, @ 0.05 kWh that's an extra $160 per year.

Yeah, huge difference. If you have a free energy is not a problem. if you pay hosting this could be a problem. Big plus is the warranty. Improved reliability? A 180-day warranty is provided starting from the shipping date.

Same cruddy firmware? Same cruddy bmminer? Same cruddy warranty? Same cruddy pricing? Same crud........

Wonder why they didn't call it the Q9 instead of T9 since Q is before R and S. Its like BMW releasing a new cheaper, slower, less luxurious car and calling it the 9 Series.

So who's buying one?

i think they figure the reason of high S9 hashboard failure it's the power needed for the chips! so they produced T9 with 180 days warranty each T9 board have 57 chips instead of 63 and need 480W to power instead of 400W less chips more power!

Less efficient? Dunno why they're even trying now. Don't see many people buying one, at least the S7LN had a few buyers. If they did something like the LN with the S9 I'd buy it but just looks like the one fan variant of the S7 they did a while back.

In this state of technology 50% more power consumption as the S9???

I'm definitely going to try these out. I'm hopeful the decreased efficiency is offset by increased reliability. Update: Reliability has been great! Not a single failure from the first batch. Reminds me of the S7s. Update #2: We've got another 50 T9s arriving the first week of March. Check my signature if you're interested.

This seems like an acknowledgement of what everyone knows.  The S9 has design issues.  While we have looked at the A7 and could not figure out the huge efficiency differences between the Antminer and the Avalon in efficiency it appears that now we may know why.  This seems like an acknowledgement that the design has problems with the S9 and most likely the R4 as well.  This would appear to put the T9 back on turf with the A7 for efficiency or getting pretty close.  If this is what it takes to make the miners stable and less prone to failure then so be it.  But now the T9 has to live in the shadow of the S9 which appears to be a more efficient miner that has hardware issues.  So will miners gamble and keep ordering S9's if they become available?  Or will they choose stability and possibly reliability instead?  Maybe Bitmain will make that choice for us and just not offer the S9 going forward?

Since when has that ever been the case? My guess is it's a cost thing. Bitmain just wants more money and nobody has a competitive product so they know they can get away with it. Kinda like they did with S5 and S7.

Is the purchasing link working for anyone yet?

Not yet for me