since this is the prototype of a 50gigahash I'd say just give it at least another 2-12 months.
I think that if they had the money (and chips in quantity, that should not be far from the truth), the should theoretically be able to ship every order in a short tf, like, 1 month.They should simply outsource everything, from the pcb to the case/packaging...
However, i think that since that they lack liquidity, they will do it in house and as slow as possible.
Why don't they start selling batches of their chips as well? That could have a fixed delivery time...
Liquidity problems?! That one rig has scored them over $8k the past 30 days, it says so on the screen. That's their rent paid for at the very least!
$8k is a drop in the bucket when you start figuring 30+ employees, wafers, PCB, PSU, marketing etc. I bet BFL is burning over $500k a month easily.
That is about what I presumed. 7 months x $500K and they still have to come up with $3M-6M in parts to be able to manufacture their backlog of orders.
Once they start shipping in bulk, we will have a better feel for how much money they have left.
