First of DragonMint that were ordered at the end of November are supposed to ship in March, it's not a massive improvement, only about 14% so not going to make much difference. Bitmain also has their own mining farms and a stake in others so it's understandable that they are not in the rush to release anything more powerful/efficient while there is no competition. They do have a share but I don't know how big in what was the largest farm in world at the time located in Mongolia with 21k S9's. What would they do with all those S9's if they released something 2x more efficient. Who knows if they have something up their sleeve or not. Maybe they just concentrated most R&D for Sophon AI and directed most of resources there.
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2011 Q7 S Line 3.0TDI, 2016 Tesla Model S 90D
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2006 A8 Sport 4.2TDI quattro SOLD,
1997 S8, reached end of life with gearbox failure
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