Next round of shareholders questions - gatheringDear shareholders,
we've gathered 20 questions so far, still
3hours until forwarding them to Friedcat. If you want to add something, don't hesitate to write it here, or in PM. Closing time for this round of questions is 1st of June 2014 12:00 UTC +01:00
1) On the Balance Sheet, approximately how many chips does the current Inventory (Products + Materials + Masks) represent?
2) How many months of inventory do you estimate that represents?
3) On the Cash Flow there was significant expenses for gen3 production (~6mil USD). Does that represent the bulk of gen3 expenses, or are the expenses for gen3 going to continue (additional wafer batches ordered, etc.)?
4) When will dividends start, and how frequently will they occur?
5) What is the status of gen 3.1 (shipping to customers, I think?)? How much does it help with energy usage -- do we have final chip performance numbers yet?
6) What is the progress on gen4?
7) What is the status of self mining? What is the rollout schedule for the data centers?
8 ) What is the status of franchising partners? When can we expect to see income from them?
9) Can you please clarify this sentence from 21st April : "The dividend schedule will be aggressive, as AM will not require large sums of retained capital." < is this still actual, or meanwhile something changed?
10) What is the average selling price of AM gen3 chips (price per Gh/s)?
11) What is that ~4M CNY in financial report/expenses at exchange?
12) What is the cash flow ratio between the amount of Chips Fabricated and the percentage of the batch that is dedicated to cost.
13) What is the Break Even Point of this batch of Chips?
14) What is the estimated conversion time from chip sales to dividends?
15) Will the funds from future Gen 3 chips be used to fund Gen 4 chips or distributed as a dividend, and what relative percentage of income will be retained for Gen 4?
16) Previously our Asicminer farm was mining bitcoins and distributing a weekly dividend, will Asicminer update its present hash rate in the mining farms to account for current difficulty changes and to procure a secondary supply of Bitcoins to adapt for rapid changes in Bitcoin prices?
17) What ever happened to the dedicated PR person and should AM make a website for distributors and for Chip inquiries?
18) Can we please get weekly, bi-weekly or monthly updates about progress, plans, sales etc. for preventing FUD in this thread?
19) Can you please communicate more clearly/frequently with shareholders?
20) What are the future plans and visions of Asicminer?