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Butterfly Labs - Posts New Hardware Photos

5/7/2013

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Butterfly labs has posted some additional photos of their updated ASIC Bitcoin Mining Platform. For those unfamiliar with this product, please search Butterfly labs category on this site. 

The following update was posted to the Butterfly Labs Forum regarding their updated platform.

The new boards for the Little Single, Single and Mini-rig  pictured below. As you can see, the board redesign incorporates a total of 16 possible chips, as well as some power distribution changes. One of the more prominent changes is the fact that we have moved from barrel jack power to PCIe style Mini-fit Jr 6 pin connectors. Each board has two 6 pin connectors to provide power, and each board is intended to provide up to 60 GH/s hashing power. 


We discovered some issues that we needed to resolve with the boards and had to change a few minor things. We tested them out on a hand modified board and they worked, so we've issued the redesign to the PCB house. The new boards are being finished today, the 6th of May, and should be ready this evening. We have more chips from the packager on the way to the assembly facility, and they should arrive on Thursday, the 9th of May. In the meantime, we will be testing and making sure the new board is functioning like we intend for when the chips arrive to the assembly facility. We don't have a count on the number of chips that will be arriving on Thursday as of yet.


The current board will support the hash rates ordered for Little Single and Single in one box, so single units will be shipped out for both the Little Single and the Single. The Mini-rig will most likely ship as two units (where as it was just one before) and possibly some Singles to bring it up to the full hash rate ordered. 5 GH/s miner production will continue concurrently with the rest of our product line. We are incorporating some changes into the new 5 GH/s miner to bring the heat and power usage down, and that will be incorporated as we go forward. Power usage on the new boards hasn't been tested yet as we are waiting for the revised board, so I don't have power figures for it yet.


Below is a picture of the new board for the Little Single, Single and Mini-rig  as well as a Single running.
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Butterfly Labs - Begins Official Shipments

5/3/2013

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Butterfly Labs, the manufacturer of ASIC mining rigs for Bitcoin has begun officially notifying their customers that shipments have begun.

These ASIC miners are custom made hardware platforms that perform mining of Bitcoins. Additional details regarding the available hardware is provided in the following link.

Butterfly Labs Product Link

The following email newsletter was sent to customers noting that shipments have started leaving their factory. 

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Butterfly Labs - Jalapeno Unboxing

4/23/2013

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It's official, Butterfly labs has begun shipping their product to developers and early supporters of their ASIC Bitcoin mining product. David Perry at Coding in my Sleep has posted a video of the unboxing and testing of the 5GH/s miner. Enjoy.

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Butterfly Labs Tour - YouTube Video

4/13/2013

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Here is a rare glimpse inside Butterfly labs offices and factory. It offers a tangible look into a the inner workings of a newly formed company designing and developing a product for the Bitcoin industry. The units shown in the the video are the FCPA products that are no longer being produced in anticipation of the ASIC chip based products.

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Butterfly Labs: Working ASIC miner (Video)

4/6/2013

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Butterfly Labs (BFL) has lifted the curtain slightly to allow it's customers and the general public a glimpse of their ASIC miner. Currently BFL is the second vendor that is anticipated to bring a fully functioning custom chip miner based on ASIC technology to market. Unfortunately, these miners were promised to be delivered in Oct, 2012 and have experienced significant delays in production since then. As you can see from the video below, it appears the chipset and boards are working but, there appears to be a significant issue with power regulation.

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Butterfly Labs - First Photos of Completed ASIC boards

3/13/2013

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Butterfly labs is getting closer to shipping an actual product. The images below were just posted to their forum page on Mar 11th. This provides additional confirmation that they also intend to become a mainstream manufacturer of ASIC based Bitcoin mining hardware.

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Butterfly Labs - Shows off chip wafer...It does exist.

2/27/2013

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Butterfly labs has posted conclusive evidence that their chips actually do exist. See the two photos below that are posted to the BFL forums today. 

This is the first photographic evidence that the ASIC chips produced by Butterfly Labs actually exists. This photographic documentation has been 6+ months in the making.

How long until the mining hardware actually ships....Who knows??

Mar 2 - Update - First Batch of chips being functionally tested.

Source Link

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Bitcoin Mining Hardware at CES 2013

1/20/2013

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Bitcoin mining has now began a third phase of hardware adoption: namely custom hardware.
As a result manufacturers are scrambling to be the first to market with this custom hardware. 

The guys at Coding in My Sleep managed to track Bitcoin down at the CES 2013 show and interview Josh from Butterflylabs (one of the custom hardware manufacturers). In the brief interview, provided below, Josh describes Butterflylabs efforts to bring this custom ASIC hardware to market.

Coding in My Sleep Link

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