The Ware for May 2016 is shown below.
Xobs discovered this morsel of technology sitting in the junk pile at his HDB, and brought it into the office for me to have a look at. I hadn’t seen of these first-hand until then.
Despite being basically a picture of two large hunks of metal, I’m guessing this ware will be identified within minutes of going up.
I’m in early with a naive guess from the west coast of the US. I see an RJ-45 Ethernet jack, a flying lead to an antennae connection, surface mount chips, a fan and some serious heat sink fins. I would guess a high power compute module. Looking forward to hints from those who find this more familiar.
An ASIC cryptocoin miner?
Yes, I’m thinking Avalon.
You can obviously see the control board with RJ45 & RP-SMA connector. The ASIC boards take their power from a pc psu, the top board has a burnt connector.
It’s an Antminer S1 dual blade
https://www.cryptocoinwalletcards.com/shop/miners/bitmain-antminer-s1-dual-blade/#
Great find! I can now see both compute boards share one daughter board for networking.
A driver/controller for a big fat motor ?
I’ll refine my guess with the conjecture that the top board is a reflection of the bottom board and has network connections on the opposite side, so there are two compute modules here. Much power and modest network in, computations out, cryptocurrency sounds good. Also, the design seems reasonable but not refined, suggesting a small shop working on this somewhat niche product.
HDB = High Definition Brotherhood?
Richard Ames has it. Antminer S1.
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/AntMiner-S1-100GH-100-w-Asic-Miner-55nm-Btc-Miner-for-Bitcoin-Mining-Better-than-Dragon/1490096_32225554421.html
Bingo. The AliExpress photo isn’t quite close enough the labels on the QFN’s on the outer sides of the PCB’s AllWinner SOCs, maybe? That’d be ARM cores doing the crunching, rather than FPGAs or custom chips.
It looks like the heat sinks are mounted directly to the backs of the PCBs, rather than in contact with the chips themselves.
These are probably similar to the rigs used in some of the giant Chinese mining operations:
http://www.coindesk.com/gallery-inside-top-bitcoin-mine-china/
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/chinas-biggest-secret-bitcoin-mine
Ah, chips are AntMiner’s own:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitmain-announces-launch-bm1385-chip-future-antminer-s7-bitcoin-miner-increased-power-efficiency-1440124404
controller/communication board with ethernet and an antenna connection.
Top board and bottom board look to be identical and are connected to the communication board with ribbon wire.
Lots of heat sinks…
Some sort of controller for something high powered, large motors perhaps?
Bitmain Antminer S1. 180GH/s. ~200W Power consumption. Wifi router board for the controller. Superseded by the Antminer S3 (450 – 480 GH/s, ~350W) then the S7 (1.7TH/s, ~1.2KW).
ah so theyre going for the ‘anti-commercial’ dollar’? to paraphrase bil hicksor should i say “anti tv programme’ tv programme?and then he goes back to his computer gameswtfi…hate everyonejust want to put that out there