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Topic: BFLabs: May 13, 2013 [Update] - page 3. (Read 4493 times)

legendary
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May 15, 2013, 01:12:14 PM
#6
God damnit why didn't I go with Avalon.  ASIC's or not, BFL is not a professionally run company.  If we had the truth the entire time, we could have made better decisions with our money.  

But if BFL told the truth, they would have less funds in their coffer and not be as far along.

What's the lesser of two weevils: Having a company make and break shipping dates, or now vow not to release any shipping dates now that they have collected all the money they possibly could, hence ceasing 95% of their past advertising campaigns? Besides on this forum, when was the last time you saw a BFL ad in the wild?

Josh = Rude
Dave = Rude
Jody = Rude
Sonny, since promising further posts and not delivering = Rude

Is it just me, or is there a pattern there?

How would you like to have a warehouse full of parts that can't be used due to design change? And yes, they are on records in stating that the warehouse is full prior to the design changes.

Question: Where do you put all the parts that should have been ordered by now to be used for the new design(s)?

Another question: Where are they going to put all those trade ins once they start asking for them?

One final question: When are they going to start asking for those trade ins to be shipped to them?

Honest Abe, one final question: Has anybody gotten an email requesting to send in their trade ins?

The writing's on the wall folks, and it ain't looking purdy?
legendary
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May 15, 2013, 10:19:05 AM
#5
Yes. But if somebody is lucky, they will ship one or two single prototypes before they run out of chips. For BFL this means that the singles are shipping. It doesn't matter that all other customers have to wait several months until their supplier made new masks and did a new waver run which is hopefully better than the current prototype run.

The yield seems to be quite low with their current wafers. If not, they follow their private agenda with all those chips.
sr. member
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May 15, 2013, 08:09:43 AM
#4
Does this mean, they have chips ready for Single and Single SC integration onto the PCB (provided they fix the PCB bug they just mentioned) and finally, everyone can start rejoicing about "actual / probable" shipping timeframe?

Doubt it if the Single is 50% down on power, are they gonna ship two of those out to everyone to make up the hashrate lol?

Seems like they're still prototyping.
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May 15, 2013, 07:50:52 AM
#3
God damnit why didn't I go with Avalon.  ASIC's or not, BFL is not a professionally run company.  If we had the truth the entire time, we could have made better decisions with our money. 
hero member
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May 15, 2013, 05:40:03 AM
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they will start with 100 Chips perhaps 50 Jalas or 6 Singels ....

but perhaps they get a few chips more end of the week but no more than 800 ....

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May 15, 2013, 05:30:24 AM
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Original Post: https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/692-bfl-asic-status-3.html#post32585

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BFL_Josh

We just got off the phone with our testing facility... they will have ~100 chips in Chicago tomorrow. What configuration of boards all those are going in, I'm not sure yet as I haven't gotten that far, but I wanted to post an update. We should have more chips in Chicago by the end of the week. The chips going through mounting tomorrow should arrive in KC on Wednesday and we'll be shipping out some units then.

We are having some trouble with the new Single board and we are working through the issues now and should hopefully have a a resolution before the end of the week. Right now, the board is having trouble powering up the second bank of chips, so we are poking and prodding to figure out where the problem is and get it corrected. When we make a change to a board, we can have a revised board the next day, so it doesn't really set things back when we make revisions to an already existing board.

That said, we'll likely be creating a few Singles boards with this set of chips and a number of Jalapeno's. The expected larger quantity of chips later in the week will probably go more towards LS/S/MR boards.

Does this mean, they have chips ready for Single and Single SC integration onto the PCB (provided they fix the PCB bug they just mentioned) and finally, everyone can start rejoicing about "actual / probable" shipping timeframe?
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