Hello.
Your discussion thread about our company was brought to our attention and as a result, I was assigned to come and shed some light on what you can expect from our product releases over the next several months. I believe there may be useful applications for our processors in your market, but there seems to be some confusion about us and what we make. I hope to clear that up.
Having said that, I've just read your complete thread and I now feel like a bloody lamb being dipped in a pool of sharks... so please, go easy on me as an outsider.
Firstly, I would like to point out that we have yet to go public with our BitForce release. At some point recently, several notables from the bitcoin community found out about our development and approached us about applications for the bitcoin market. Since then we have been working on bitcoin mining compatibility for our drivers. The pre-order offer which you are discussing is meant to provide these people early access to our hardware. Our public announcement will come in roughly two weeks. Why not now? Because we're not ready.
Regarding the press release draft someone found, we didn't know about that until it was mentioned here, thanks for that. It seems one of our staff used an online PR generator several weeks ago in preparation for our announcements. Apparently it auto published a draft along with a link for penis enlargement. Excellent. Luckily, they pulled it down on request. I sincerely thank you all for this heads up. It could have been more embarrassing than it was.
Regarding the server enclosure, yes it is indeed a server enclosure that we don't manufacture. I'm not sure what the controversy is as we haven't falsely claimed to be a server enclosure manufacturer. (Having said that, we actually do make aluminum enclosures, just small ones.) The Rig Box product will be a lower volume production so we felt it would be more cost effective to use off the shelf parts. I believe the site you found the enclosure on is a supplier to OEM's like us. However, we don't buy ours from them because they're too expensive. In any case, to clarify further... we may not even use that enclosure in the end due to spacing considerations. We simply haven't finalized the engineering. That is also why there is no across the board pricing, performance or release specifications set in stone on our website for the Rig Box based products. So, in sum... please be patient and you can properly bash us when we're finished.
Why do we have a rendering of a PCB on the website? Mostly because it looks pretty good. If a picture of a PCB is needed for analysis by engineers in the crowd in order to become comfortable with us, then I invite you to take a look at these photos of our actual October production of Pre-Order units. Yes, they may be Photoshop images... and then again maybe they're not.
Guys, I may not be here every day, but I'll stop by frequently enough to answer your questions. In sum, I'm glad to meet you all and I trust you will come to appreciate our products over the coming months as we reveal the complete technical details.
Regards,
BFL