THELOGICALINDIAN - Japans GMO Internet has apparent the amount and specs of the GMO miner B2 able with 7nm ASIC mining chips The mining accommodation is 24 THs and the amount of the machines will be adapted account according to appeal Using GMOs mining rigs the ability burning can be bargain up to 20 and the amount of arrangement accessories can be bargain to 155 bounded media address from Tuesdays columnist conference
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GMO Miner B2 Specs
Japanese internet behemothic GMO appear the capacity of its bitcoin mining rigs alleged “GMO miner B2” in a columnist appointment on Tuesday, June 5, advanced of the absolute launch that is appointed for the morning of the afterward day, June 6.
Nikkei reported:
For comparison, the accepted Bitmain Antminer S9’s hashrate is 14TH/s. According to Bloomberg, the GMO chips are advised in Japan and produced in Taiwan.
Masatoshi Kumagai, Chairman and Director of GMO Internet and the GMO Group representative, declared the advantages of his company’s mining accessories over added products.
“The achievement per assemblage is college than that of above competitors’ products,” he was quoted by the account outlet. “If we about-face from over 20,000 mining machines operating in Northern Europe to GMO miner B2, the accession amplitude will be about bisected in agreement of agnate performance.”
Power Consumption
“Compared to accepted mining machines…the ability burning is up to 20%, the amount of arrangement accessories etc. can be bargain to 1/55,” Itmedia noted.
Kumai advertisement appear from the columnist appointment that each assemblage consumes 1,950 watts and ability accumulation units can accumulation up to 2,200 watts at 240 V.
Adjustable Price – $1,999 for June
GMO miner B2 will be awash through the company’s accessory in Zug, Switzerland, according to Nikkei. They will be on auction starting Wednesday and orders will alpha aircraft from the end of October, as news.Bitcoin.com ahead reported.
The amount for anniversary assemblage is “announced monthly,” the advertisement added, absolute that the “sales amount in June is $1,999.” Itmedia described:
Currently, Bitmain’s Antminer S9 is priced at $837.
GMO’s Plans
Mr. Masatoshi Kumagai told reporters that so far the crypto mining industry is bedeviled “by mining machines provided by Bitmain, a above mining accouterments aggregation in China,” and that he “noticed the actuality that not a distinct Japanese aggregation that is acceptable at accomplishment is able to participate.”
He additionally appear that the aggregation “invested about 10 billion yen for the development of the product,” the advertisement conveyed and quoted the administrator explaining:
Furthermore, he added, “we additionally accommodate an API (application programming interface) for arrangement ecology accordant with GMO miner B2 and a apprehension action [for] back the artefact is affiliated to the net at the time of an absurd accident of theft.”
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