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by 58x14 1107 days ago
I worked with an electrical engineer who disclosed to me a mid 8 figures investment made by a PE firm to develop Ethereum FPGA and ASIC hardware, and while he told me they were underwater on that deal, they did achieve (IIRC) 30%+ performance (watt to flop) relative to (at the time) top-of-the-line GPUs.

I wonder what they’re doing with that hardware now.

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Still useful for other coins, though the returns may not be very great.
Interesting, what memory did they manage to use - I suppose not HBM.