OP said:
Processor Type:BM1485
Cant be A4 chips as these run 400W compared to 1050W for the A4...

The L3 chips don't look anything like the Inno chip.  So I don't think there is any cross development going on there.  

Inno may not need a new chip.  When they demonstrated the A4 chip it was capable of some really good numbers as a stand alone chip.  So they may just need to rework the board or software to get the performance out of the miner.  I certainly don't know if that is their plan or what they are going to do.  

I would like to see Inno get it figured out so we have competition in this space at the very least.  Being left with only Bitmain as a choice is not a good position to be in.  

 my antminer l3-- five units ... fantastic work and income
https://www.nicehash.com/?p=miners&addr=17wQawxk5EYXTNQSnrTPP8y9J7jL2pFMnF&a=3&l=1

Your profit looks good because there is big increase in Nicehash payouts. As you can seee from whattomine. Nicehash pays now most of all.

 No, those are different chips - they may have similar interface though, like the Innosilicon A1 and A2 did.

 Bitmain designs it's own chips, but uses TSMC (IIRC) to manufacture them.


 There are only 2 companies in the world with fabs that can do the actual manufacture of 14nm/16nm node semiconductors.
 TSMC and GlobalFounderies.

 (Intel MIGHT be a third, but if so ALL of their capasity is used internally).

 Due to the agreements involved in how GlobalFounderies came to exist, a large part of their capasity is "spoken for" by AMD and IBM.
 TSMC seems to have some sort of a co-development agreement with Samsung that causes some of their capasity to be "spoken for".

 Both make and sell to everyone else out of what is "left over".

kinda lost on the above..what I meant was will the BM 1485 now be used in ASIC BTC MINERS as a more advanced asic chip or is the BM 1485
scypt specific asic (assuming that bm 1385 in now btc miners is equiv asic chip that can do above)

And the labs above they make these chips (regardless of my question above) for Bitmain specific? I think I have that part right.

Anyway just was curious if the BM 1485 in the LTC machines is the superior to the BM 1385 in the BTC machines and thus you would see the BM 1485
(if by number) the more advanced pop up in the BTC miners too eventually as the next step up....ie asic chips able to be designed to be used in either
BTC miners or LTC miners

thanks



Not strange if Bitmain is gonna put them out in stages and mine the hell out of them in their data halls first...just saying ....dribbling them out to keep
the difficulty low (I mean why P*ss in your own pool ..difficulty rise wise)

Hope it so ...my 'terminal knc titans' would be able to 'zombie along' a bit longer

 The BM 1485 is Scrypt specific.


 The ONLY company that ever made chips that could do both Scrypt and SHA256 was Gridseed (SFards was the merger of GridSeed and WiBox).
 Their first chip (the  GC3355) persisted in Scrypt for a long time due to very little competition and to Scrypt being a more complicated algorytmn that could not be sped up as much by semiconductor process improvements as SHA256 could.
 They VERY quickly became obsolete in SHA256 usage because they were surpassed very quickly by a LOT - the second chip they did was already behind the SHA256 curve when they released it.
 That second chip never made an impact in Scrypt because the MINER it was sold in was total junk design at the board level and badly overpriced, and appears to have only had one batch ever manufactured for sale.



 I suspect there are no L3's posted to the Bitmain US site because they've already sold out on the ones they made from their first batch of chips, and they're in "have to wait" mode for the second batch of chips.
 Litecoin difficulty has been VERY flat the last couple weeks indicating very few if any new machines being sold to ANYONE.

Diff was flat becuase big ammount of has was moved to one other coin.

They probably mined in house with the L1 all these years. Figures.

Does it affect the mining stability and hash rate?