Topic: BFL ASIC Sample Chips - Who wants them? (Read 2957 times)

Chris99 in UK is offering to install BFL sample chips on a board if anyone is interested. 3-4 chips per board.  $600 per board is not cheap but could be a quick way to get a Little Single.

Also BFL will release up to 5 sample chips per 100 chips ordered if you email them ([email protected]).  You can send the chips to UK or if you prefer you can send them to me in Houston and I will forward them. 

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/3831-board-bfl-chips-group-buy-chips-10.html#post51223

Attention anyone with BFL sample chips:

PM me if you would like to sell them or donate them for testing a new board.

No, with all due respect, I'm not sure that's even totally true.  It seems the story around those Shenzen chips has changed, and new characters have been added to the story, since the first translations last week.

Do me a favor.  When you feel certain that you know what's going on there, post it on one of the relevant threads.  I'll believe you.  While it remains first-translation, not so much.

EDIT: We are risking hi-jacking this thread.  End of this discussion here, and apologize to the OP.

People who can read Chinese know.

Except they do exist, sitting in boxes in Shenzen, last we knew.

But nobody seems to really know who they belong to, or what their productive purpose is, or how many times they might get hijacked before they are used.  But hell, this is bitcoin, and that would be way too much information.   

Whats that "Uh oh Avalon is so cool i want a Baby from them" thing always?? Whats the matter with 400k Avalan chips now??  Yea they will be delivered and maybe in 4 month there are 20% of them hashing..  Everyone thinks that will be like buying a Radeon Card and he can use it in 2 days and no other costs..

By the way: 400k Avalon chips is like 25k BFL chips.. so thats not really that much...

Put them in the bin...lolz

AVALON has landed 400,000 chips delivered and counting

MrTeal seems like he is farthest along with board development but he has a bunch of sample chips already. That's why I sent mine to chris99 at BFL forum...

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/3831-board-bfl-chips-group-buy-chips.html

Just got info that my sample chips have been shipped. I still haven't made any decisions who they are going to. I ideally would like to send them to someone who has proof of ability to design boards for ASIC chips.

I have sent my 2 sample chips to chris99 who is designing a board for BFL chips. I am interested in purchasing up to 6 additional BFL sample chips so the board designed to hold 8 chips can be fully tested.

This just in from Josh:

Anthony is not longer with us, which is why the sample chips have languished. I just corrected this problem today and we have a new person on it... he should be getting the sample chips taken care of over the next couple days.


https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3014-butterfly-labs-announces-bulk-chip-sales-31.html

Don't hold your breath on sample chips from BFL.  I don't think anyone has gotten any yet.  I bought my chips from BFL on 6/11.

I have initiated a project for developing a prototype miner based on BFL chips in Taiwan. The prototype will be adopted rackmount chassis, modules design and advanced cooling system. The design will be open source. It would be a great help with just few sample chips.

Cheers!

I'll check that out and let you know!

I pm'ed burnin asking him if he was going to work on BFL and he has not responded.

Let me know how you feel about this.

G'dday!

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The purpose of Triple B Buyer is to provide surplus GPU hash for our Triple B Mining farm. Also to provide an easy avenue for interested investors to get involved with BTC and mining as a hobby easily, with minimal fuss. 

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We have many community creative plans to complete and I'd rather not go into them much further.. but with our funding spent on retail ASIC and private money being poured into collecting the needed components to get these chips to even fire... We really need a break, some good old community spirit. We need an Angel to help us line up in prime position to take full advantage of a chip acquisition in a respectable number but at a much more reasonable price.

We would like to have each chip as cheap as we can get please, as we want to order a 1000 most likely and wish to acquire them soon but the asking price from BFL of $75 is ridiculous when we only intend to spend that on manufacturing and materials per our devices as a whole each. So we are left to only being able to accept donations of these coupons because they are only a discount & not a chip.. some are selling the at face value...   and are worthless codes to most... and even more worthless again as chips to many more when they finally get them without a working design for them. 

Please if your giving these away please considering giving them to our security for testing and our  development project and share in the exciting and different offerings we plan to keep bringing to the BTC and LTC community. We will gladly walk beside you all. We mine for the community. We mine for you! 

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the developers on this thread would be interested: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-bfl-4-ghs-chips-06-btc-per-chip-batch-29-236103
i can facilitate.

Who you contacted about sample chips
We made 2 group orders for BFL chips and We are going to start BFL based miner board development as soon we finish with our Avalon based project

Selling 32 chip credis (real value when purchasing from bfl is 25$)

accepting offers!

from his thread:

Intron is also are interesed into dev. He curently work with bitfurry asic testing. I have read that he has some agreemant with another GB.

Burnin & Bitmine.ch

They made everything really good till now :-)

I appreciate that. I'm afraid I haven't been up to date on burnin's boards. Would he make his designs public to the forum? I am hoping that the samples will be used for open-source boards.

I bought a bit over a hundred chips and they are sending me two samples. I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean by their "coupon policy". If you're referring to their trade current orders for chips or their free chips give away then I'm afraid I can't help you as either of those situations were not applicable to me. Sorry.

sub'ing

I am from the Netherlands and maybe want to start building them but me partner said do BFL give sample chips seems they do. If I need 1 or 2 I can't really answer. We are gonna call BFL in a few hours. Since we also got a few questions about pcb in general. If I got all the parts I needed then I can contact a company to make a prototype if that one works then I want to start ordering chips.



EDIT: Nah I have looked off the plan I might just join a other mass buy or help someone with it.

+1 for Burnin

I think that this one gets my +1

ship them to burnin please.
he's a central EU dev of an avalon board.
he also expressed interest in doing a BFL board.
sample chips could further these ambitions.

I will pay for shipping.

Hi there.

I'm finalizing the deals with 2 company that one will deign and ather produce boards. Now more then chips I'm interested in 2 things. How many did you had to buy to get samples. Second what is there coupon policy? How much you need to pay with coupon for first 50%.

I did ask BFL but not jet receive the answer.

But if you would send chips to me days of work can help so PM me if interested. But not sure if you would call me trusted developer and I'm EU based. Anyway I will probably get them anyway...

Thanks

So I have an order placed with BFL that will get me two sample chips in the next couple of weeks confirmed by BFL. I am not sure which developers are looking to work on the PCB design for BFL but I'm willing to ship these to trusted developers who are going to be working on the design as soon as I get them. I'm not sure if a designer would need both chips, but if not I'd like at least one developer in the US to get one.

I'm not sure who is actually serious about developing this, so I'm leaving this to the consensus of regular board members as to who they should go to.

Cheers!