Topic: Already delays in BFL shipment plans? - page 42. (Read 49568 times)

I would be shocked if it wasn't scenario 1. It would make no sense to completely populate the boards other than the ASICs and then tack on the ASICs as they arrive. The difference to a large board house with all the parts on hand between completely populating the bare boards vs only adding the eight chips is going to be small if it exists at all.

1) They haven't yet put the PCB boards together at the fab house they are using. This is assuming that the fab house is in charge of integrating/assembling the entire board and not just the PCB without the ASIC chips. If this is the case, then forget about November.

2) They have assembled the PCB boards at the outsourced fab house despite not having the ASICs on hand, but lack the chips which will be done in house or sent to the outsourced Fab house once again. (Does this imply it will be done in-house with the new equipment they have on hand...can anyone see further delays as they learn how to use the equipment?)


Which it is, is anyones guess...

Q: when


> From BFL forums
https://forums.butterflylabs.com/showthread.php/104-Shipping-in-2-3-weeks/page8

Ok, so we have the cats herded, the specs staked out, now we have to actually build these things. As many of you know, we've purchased SMT machines to allow us to manufacture our own boards - and I have mentioned this before, but many have not heard it - we will not be using the SMT equipment to process our first batch of boards; we will be using the same house that did the pick and place for our previous generation products, which means we're still at the mercy of someone else for our first batch shipments. There has been some delays at that stage, but we have the padding, so it's not been a critical issue. There has also been some delays at the foundry, but again, we have padding, so it's not been a critical issue. We are also paying for an expedited run at the foundry (which does not come cheap) to keep our timeline up. All these things have to work out perfectly and our timeline is still looking good. However, if something does not work out perfectly, our timeline is going to slip, plain and simple. We've used up most of our padding at this point and we are still ironing out a few little wrinkles here and there. This has been a long explanation for a simple answer: I would like to tell you we are still on time or pretty close to it, because we are. However, I would also like to tell you that we are going to slip a couple weeks or so if anything goes wrong, and given the complexity of the issues facing us, I would say it's almost inevitable something will crop up between now and the beginning of November that we are not expecting; What that is, I don't know yet, but I would rather error on the side of caution, say the timeline is going to slip a little bit and then surprise everyone with an early delivery than promise an early delivery and not meet that promise. So that's what I'm doing and there's your answer. When I have more information, I'll let people know as soon as I can.

We are not going to be shipping the first week of November, I can definitely say that.  We are waiting on the bulk chips from the foundry, that is really the major delay right now.  As soon as that dam breaks loose, we pretty much have everything else either ready to go or in the pipeline to be completed shortly.

They are not done yet.  We are paying for what's called a "bullet run" though, which is essentially an expedited process to get the chips done sooner.

OMFG thanks for getting that stuck in my head. 

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Where did you get that information? I didn't think they'd be making any schedules/promises especially on later orders.

Is this not the exact same thing that happened with BFL and their FPGA's ? Did they not continue to push back the ship date? and then the performance specs?

Is this not the exact same thing that happened with BFL and their FPGA's ? Did they not continue to push back the ship date? and then the performance specs?

As a late comer my order was scheduled for January shipping

It was pushed so far into November its scheduled for November 25th 2013

Statement from Josh/BFL:
We wanted to cover the bases with the Bitcoin Mag article, so we pushed the shipment date out.

With regards to an updated shipping schedule, we are waiting on some information with regards to the bulk shipment of our ASIC chips. Once we get a confirmed date on the bulk shipment, I will have a pretty solid idea of exactly when we will start shipping, but until I have a more exact date with regards to the chips, I can't give a better estimate. Once we have the chips in hand it will take a couple days to get them pushed through our pick and place house and then ready to be shipped out. Chances are, either I or someone else from BFL will be going in person to be sure each step is executed as quickly as possible and to handle any unexpected contingencies that might crop up.

At this point, though, I very seriously doubt we'll make the end of October. How far into November that is pushed I should know sometime soon (this week, I hope).