Topic: BFL ASIC Shipment Plan - page 3. (Read 13800 times)

  Thanks for the updates there.  Good to know things are on schedule.

It's a novelty item with the worst GH/s per $ that BFL will offer. I would still buy one  since winter is approaching and it's cheap enough, but most of my money will be spent on mid and high range miners. I just hope more competition starts. I like options, and BFL has a lot to prove still.

The jalepeno is supposed to be USB powered. Dunno if that helps any.

GH/s per $ is what i care about, and what really matters. Also shipping speed. At the current low standards 2weeks or less to ship out is reasonable. Whoever meets those requirements is getting my money. So i really hope measured in days isn't a dream. Good luck to everyone.

Three questions for you BFL:
 
1.The $1,333.00 should be paid prior to shipment? I'm trying to place an order but for some reason the procedure won't continue (trying via Paypal).

2. I'm living in Greece. Will there be extra cost?

2. Is it certain that the BitForce Single 'SC' has a constant 40GH/s performance?

Thanks in advance for your answer(s).

Ah, interesting..

We have a full pick and place machine in the works as well.

Hm, quite a cryptic post...
What exactly can you do in-house except assembling? Maybe bonding and packaging, but this will be a bit crazy..
Also, do you already have the chips in your hands for fixing final design and testing? ASICMINERs seems to move pretty fast and they dont need to ship a product.

Let me explain a bit about why our shipping of product is going to be totally different moving into the ASIC arena.

Right now, we have to rely on outside vendors for many of the parts that go into an FPGA single.  Couple that with the fact that the FPGA single is a complicated piece of machinery and the manufacture and assembly of an FPGA single is very labor intensive.

With the ASICs we are moving the manufacture of a large portion of it in house.  This will cut our supply chain issues down dramatically and allow us to build product as required to fulfill orders... we've invested quite a lot of money in building up our manufacturing and assembly facilities so that we aren't in the position we are in now and forced to rely on the timetables of other companies for some components.  Strangely, the biggest trouble we have is getting the most common stuff on time (fans, heatsinks, etc...).  Then there is the fact that the MiniRig and the Singles use different components, so we have to acquire and keep stock for both types.  With the ASIC generation, all of that will be shared between the units, so it cuts our supply issues in half and allows us to keep more stock.

tl;dr : We have made many changes for the ASIC generation that will make our production, assembly and shipping times measured in days, not weeks.

As I understand, it's because they want to accumulate a large amount and ship it all at once, so the distribution timing is more fair.

Here comes November! 

I dont know, I have some experience in FPGA and even ASIC, your sure BFL will be able to ship ASICs so fast after getting them from production line? Customers may get a DOA product or something wich will perform 1/10 of the specs due to some glitch or bug which cant be worked around..
PS: I do plan to buy BFL ASICs too but after they hit the market.

It seems like a brilliant marketing plan to draw in more pre-sales with a chance that you won't need to wait 12 months for your magic "beans". Oh... I mean "jalapenos" 

Kudos to whoever came up with that scheme.

Would be fair to ship the units to outside of USA 3 or 4 days earlier, then in US, as the customs delay leaves people outside of USA disadvantaged.

The "Are we there yet?" Threads will be coming in almost exactly 2 months. These are the "How much loooooooooonnnngeeerrrrrrrr? [/whine]" threads. 

I swear I see all these threads and they are all the same. Sounds like a couple of kids in the backseat repeating the same question over and over again.
Are we there yet? Are we there yet?Are we there yet? Knowing damn good and well....

thanks for clearing that up


so when will the first BFL ASICS ship?

I mean ramping up the actual shipping.

ohhh kay....

Does ramping up mean ramping up your plan for shipping or actually ramping up shipping as in shipping things?

We are working on ramping up our current shipping as well as our ASIC shipping.  Rest assured our shipping times are improving and will continue to improve through the ASIC launch.