New ASIC developed by Bitmain for CryptoNight and CryptoNite, the algorithm on which Monero is based, the Bitmain Antminer X3, which promises great power that will not do much good soon.

ASICs are ceasing to be for Bitcoin and are adapting to the new needs of the market. Bitmain, the world's largest ASIC maker, has announced the launch of the company's first miner of its kind designed to crush blocks from the CryptoNight / CryptoNite algorithm, the algorithm on which Monero is based. This powerful miner is called Antminer X3 and has the characteristic of offering 220KH / s of power with a power consumption of 550W. It is not the first of these characteristics, this week the Baikal Giant-N of 20KH / s was already announced and a consumption of 60W.

This information has been published on Bitmain's Twitter account. In addition, they have also started the pre-sale of these Antminer X3 equipment, so that they will begin to be distributed throughout the month of May. It should be noted that these have a cost of $ 12.000 per unit, if we want to receive it in May and if we wait until June, it will have a price of $ 7.600. You can only buy one unit of these per person, at the moment.

We are pleased to announce the all-new Antminer X3, to mine cryptocurrencies based on the CryptoNight hashing algorithm.
Two batches: shipping in June (https://t.co/VeidZrreK2) and shipping in May (https://t.co/RKtJe6Rm8D)
To prevent hoarding and to enable…. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/PBKdXrwg9b

- BITMAIN (@BITMAINtech) March 15th 2018

They have also made it very clear that returns of these equipment will not be accepted, because 'changes are made in the algorithm that is used to mine this cryptocurrency'. They want to avoid that a possible modification in the algorithm affects them and they have to eat the equipment and return the money, so if you dare, you know that you are running a great risk.

In addition to Bitmain and the Turkish Baikal, there is also a third actor who has communicated after the announcement of the X3, that they are also working on a miner. It was Halong Mining on Twitter who said: 'Good to see two other manufacturers announced Cryptonite miners. We will be the third party. We are currently scheduling the dispatch of other miners. '

Great to see two other manufacturers have announced Cryptonite miners. We'll be the third? We are currently on schedule for shipping other miners.

- Halong Mining (@HalongMining) March 15, 2018

We must emphasize at this point that it is possible that none of these serve to mine Monero, since the community is working to implement measures that prevent the use of ASICs. Of course, there are other cryptocurrencies that also make use of the CryptoNight algorithm, such as Bytecoin (BCN), DigitalNote (XDN), AEON and Electroneum (ETN), among others. It has been one of the Monero developers, Riccardo Spagni, who has said on his personal Twitter that: 'Just a reminder that this is NOT going to work on Monero.'

Just a reminder that this WILL NOT work on Monero https://t.co/rhy6k2I4Yh

- Riccardo Spagni (@fluffypony) March 15th 2018