I thought they were the same thing until a couple hours ago.
Anyway since presumably(hopefully) no BFL SC products will ship without at least one ASIC chip, I hardly see how the distinction is necessary. Like their convoluted 1/3 shipping policy it seems to be needlessly complex.
It certainly makes no sense to have "no batches" and a "1/3rd" plan.
However it seems as though their communication just sucks, not necessarily that nothing makes sense.
They ordered 20k ASICs, they said that it was enough for "all the pre-orders, and more". Meaning 20k ASICs > orders for ASICs. So, 20k is not a useful number.
They plan to ship 1/3rd, they said that they will ship in some bizarre lump batch, I don't remember the rationale behind. This will be for as many as they can produce in Z amount of time (all very vague and unclear).
After which they will build X units per day, and ship Y units per day (X could = Y, one would hope) until they have exhausted all remaining pre-orders, and regular orders. This could happen with the 20k chips, or they might be ordering more if demand surpasses stock.
It all makes sense, though as one commenter suggested, it hints and under-sized production facilities. C'est la vie.
We don't have batches.
First batch was quoted to be 20,000 ASICs. Sounds like it's going to take quite a while to turn those all into products. Batch #1 is going to last for months.
I think what your referring to is the ASIC CHIPS only,not the 1st batch of finished product being shipped.I could be wrong
So... we can guess at about a cash flow of several million held+ interest, without anything even being shipped
Yes and no. If you take into account 20k ASICs are greater than the number of pre-orders you can only use that as an upper bound. With that said, you are also assuming no money has been put towards development, hardware, shipping, salary, facilities, etc, and instead envision it going into a bank account. Unlikely.
