Back on topic. So this Wednesday news won't be a 28nm then?
News will be nothing of value, nothing but words - guarantee it.
My guess is for something more substantial, along the lines of "we're buying some next-gen Avalon chips to build miners to fill customer orders and mine with as a temporary stop-gap until our custom 28nm chip is ready"
At which point we will have come full circle to near enough to 12 months ago, having achieved almost nothing yet burned and spent and lost much.
And I expect the cycle of incompetence, delays and excuses to continue until the whole thing implodes. I hope I'm wrong.
Where is this avalon information coming from? Why would we buy avalons? I doubt we have enough money to produce the 28nm chip let alone buy avalons AND produce a 28m chip.
You nailed it we cant produce a 28nm chip or any chip so the most likely news is that we are buying AM or avalon chips.
Yep, our 28nm eASIC was cancelled, our 55nm was cancelled, so far we're 0 from 2 in chip production and nothing that's happened in the last 12 months makes me believe the third try will be the charm.
We can't buy AM chips - AM are competent, deliver on time, and don't screw their customers. Which is why I predict we'll buy Avalon chips (despite getting burned before), and we'll get burned again, and again, until there is nothing left but a smoking ruin.
Funny (?) thing is, I was pretty much a fence-sitter with a "wait and see" and "give Ken a chance" attitude until this latest round of failures (cancelled 55nm) were delivered via a third party news article. That slap in the face to shareholders was the last straw for my cautious optimism. On the plus side, if this debacle actually delivers anything other than hot air and promises, imagine how happy us doubters will be!