Innosilicon just dropped some big news today. They've announced the Terminator 2 (T2) Miner, which hits a crazy 17.2TH/s with a power draw of 1570W at the wall, and it's ready to ship out!
These guys are a top name in the ASIC manufacturing game and their latest 10nm SHA256 miner really sets the bar higher in the competitive BTC mining scene. The T2 is proof of Innosilicon's ability to keep delivering cutting-edge mining tech.
The T2 Miner boasts some of the best semiconductor tech and uses this sweet dynamic frequency scaling to improve efficiency and reliability. It's got a solid hash rate exceeding 17.2TH/S, and when running in high efficiency mode, the power usage can drop to just 85W/TH. You can expect a much better ROI since these miners will cost less to run compared to others out there, plus they should hold their value as mining difficulty continues to rise. So, you grab a T2, and you've got a solid future ahead.
Is it same chip as the Halong T1 correct?
Will -ck provide firmware to this gear?
Does it only mine BTC?
Is it limited to 5 pools?
I would love to demo one for you if you answer my 4 questions. Above
I don't mind being limited to the 5 pools above as long as I know this before I buy it.
It means to me that Inno needs to make it clear that it only works with pools that supports AB.
Until the majority of pools support AB failure to mention that is false advertising by omission because people will naturally assume that it works with all pools - and for all sha256-d coins - as historically all miners have. This miner and the T1 do not.
As I've said about Halong and their T1, if Inno wants all pools to support AB then they need to get some of these in the hands of the pool operators so they can test the changes on their pool using Testnet to verify how it behaves with their setup. Only a fool would make live changes to what is essentially financial software without testing on their pool hardware/software setup first.
The original T2 thread is listed here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3389644.0
Innosilicon, do you have an explanation for CK not supporting your hardware, and your current relationship with Halong?
So from experience the specs are something more along these lines:
17.2 - 6% = 16.17TH
1570w + 6% = 1664w
In all fairness, if they can operate at 50c external temps they have a place in the market because nothing else does.
If you have a choice, which half refund from order of Innosilicon or miner, I will now always choose a refund.
You will get more money back, than with miner from Innosilicon.
My recommendation is, not buy and stay far away from this company.
@ -ck thank you for reply
price does matter would like to know.
I would not buy this without proper firmware support.
My t1's are fine at low and medium speed.
If I can not set this gear to 3 speeds I do not want it.
I won't be having a Innosilicon T2 for review, bought or for free,
their business policy is bad for the community and I also have bad personal experience with them..
My moderation standards have not changed in many years as moderator here but I'm not the only moderator.
As for this mining hardware, specifically I'm contracted by MyRig for the driver to the HalongMiner T1 and have nothing to do with Innosilicon directly.
This is so important for the miner besides performance. Bitmains still capable of lowering their S9 price if the Innosilicon comes close to it in price or performance to stay competitive. This will have to be near the price of an S9 to have decent sales at all.
We already know the price in bulk ($1600/100 MOQ), but resellers will definitely markup the price. The question is how much it will cost for us and what Bitmain will do in response- theyll probably lower the price of the S9 further as aforementioned (S9i 14TH/S is currently at $1050 with PSU).
Huh? At current 1600 price, S9 is already far more competitive, especially with coupons. Getting 80% more hashrate is alot better than 10% more efficiency.
Go ahead and crunch your numbers.
this... I pretty much lost my shirt trying to go w/ halong I can't imagine innosilicon being anything worthwhile to anyone at the price they're trying to hawk these for
If they were smart they could compete with a two year warranty.
But 1600 for 17th vs 1780 for 28th. Is a big edge for bitmain .
Of the three out there Avalon is best for me due to the long warranty.
My power deal means I can not lose unless the gear breaks.
So I look for gear with best warranty
Innosilicon hasn't been too bad to work with but other manufacturers are much, much easier. Take this perspective with a grain of salt as we have only been placing orders with them for a week or so but seems routine thus far and shipping confirms are coming as expected.
In agreement though that a 17th/s unit is pretty irrelevant in market, unless extremely competitive in price with current asics. More excited for more announcements and improved efficiencies. It would be nice if manufacturers took a more traditional approach to wholesale pricing but we can't expect that to change anytime soon.
Where did you all see the MOQ listing? I can forward this to our web and see if their wanting to list for group buys but I think we all can agree there might not be much interest.