Of course we'll see another batch. There's no way that the S5+ is a one time event. But at this late stage there's no way it will run as long as the S3 did (what was that, 6 batches?)
Were hoping to see more batches but honestly its not a sure thing. I think it is a good chance, but not sure.
If they were doing to get rid of extra chips we will not see it again. If we see batch 2 we can expect to see a few i think.
I agree that we don't know for sure what will happen. We have little visibility into Bitmain's business and we're all just guessing.
But in addition to just using up current (old) chips, Bitmain will need to recoup their development investment with the S5+. It's easy for us to look at an S5+ and say "that's just 3 S5s bolted together". But the fact is that they every product, even an incremental one, costs money to bring it to market.
Whether they can recoup their costs and use up their old chips with one run of the S5+ is unknown, but I think it's unlikely.
What's more likely is that they'll keep making these until there's no demand or they're out of chips. Clearly there's demand, so if they still have chips they'll be more batches.
Further, we can look at this from a historic perspective. Has there ever been a mining product from Bitmain in the past that only had a single batch? Even the U3 had 2 batches, and it probably was a niche item.
