Topic: Black Arrow 28nm 100Ghash Bitcoin ASIC from $0.49/GH/s - page 119. (Read 787050 times)

27 June 2014

Shipping: the shipping of the X-1 (Control Board) test batch has been completed. The production of X-1 (Batch1 and Batch2) is close to completion and shipping will resume within days. Please note that the X-1 (RPi) units have been discontinued and are no longer available on order.
The delivery for the boards for all X-1 currently on order will be completed by the SMT factory tonight. Product assembly for mass production is already booked.
Following a thorough reviewing, the X-3 backplane has been put in production. The first batch will be delivered this weekend. We have several designs to our disposal and we have to decide which one was the best choice. We will be able to inform our customers on the X-3 shipping schedule within a few days.
LCD - The software team are modifying the driver to work with our MCU. The LCD feature will be added to the miners within 10 days after the driver will be released. We kindly remind our customers that the LCD has been added on their request. Our initial design did not have this option which was added at the beginning of this year. However, once available, the LCD will be installed on all units regardless of the time of the order being placed.
X2 – First batch of Prospero X2 will be assembled and tested next week. More detailed updates on X2 will be provided with our next weekly progress update.
Wi-Fi – External antennas have been tested and Wi-Fi is working. Please note its functionality is linked to LCD/touchscreen functionality. Units with Wi-Fi will be delivered as soon as we have LCD available in our products.
Rent-A-Minion: the first site to host this service has been completed. The delivery for the mining equipment will be done in parallel with the shipping for Batch1 & Batch2. Customers will be notified when their quota will be available according to the shipping queue.
Compensation Package: this has proved to be a hot topic over the past few weeks. The internal assessment on a potential compensation package is under way and the final decision will be made public when the shipping of Batch1 and Batch2 will be completed.
Customer Service: it was reported to us that some of our customers who are not active on forums would be happy to receive the important notifications by email. We will also send newsletters to our customers when we post the progress update on our website. However only the subscribers to our Newsletters will receive email notifications.
Communications:  please note that we will suspend the weekly progress update as soon as the shipping for X-1 and X-3 Batch1 and Batch2 will be completed. All queries should be addressed to the Customer Service Team.
The surprise: there were various speculations regarding the nature of the surprise. We are not keen on sustaining the suspense any longer however we believe that the moment of disclosing the secret has to be well prepared so it can benefit our customers. Without disclosing any details, we can only ask for our customers to bear with us. We are hoping that the waiting will be worth it.

I am crossing my fingers that my 5 units go on Monday!

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And you point is. Judginging from your rep on here I suggest you go and troll some where else.

I do not need to see a clearer shot from you to know that bobsags3's pic has been editted.

At first glance, the text "Black Arrow LTD" is shorter than whatever the blur says on your shot.

900% zoom - inverting the colors makes it more obvious.

No response since my last message (except automated mail with ticket number, fuck this).
So I sent another message today:
"Hello, please give me some feedback of how you´ve decided. You had enough time to solve the problem you carefully prepared for me, now time is up (almost 9 weeks since confirmed date of delivery) and my patience has reached its limit. I don ´t want to receive just another "we are doing our best" instead of concrete specific answer when I will receive back my money!"

A few messages before I have been told that my situation is being solved by some supervisor, but still with no explanation. If they won´t send back any satisfying information I will start to solve this by court next week. I hope someone will be hanged for this (for us all).

Nice!! First I've seen of their chips.........haven't really been looking either    I've moved on to alts,BTC mining at home is very near dead...for me at least 

As a general comment: My X-1 was super clean. No way it was mined with before it was shipped.

So guessing they came from the same Wafer?

2014, 18th. week  sounds about right. Late April early May.

Mine also has 1418 as well so I am guessing this is another marking not in regards to build date.  I couldn't get it to grab the text with just my phone and didn't have another camera to bust out to take the pic.

Well, date of the ba post and question is september 2013. At that time they have mining hw build on other asic chip manufactures.

Uh.
They made their own chip. Have you not seen the 100+ pictures of all the chips on trays, or installed on boards, or installed in miners?

Maybe when someone opens their miner,they can pull the heatsink off & take a pic of the chips 

blackarrow will you elaborate please?

I hope everyone gives their review here after they run fire them up.

Thanks for that info. The lack of info from BA is incredible.

I live on the west coast of the USA. I received a tracking number from BA 2 days ago but the email went to my spam folder. The delivery came in two separate DHL trucks one for the miner one for the cord.

Someguy4214, in what country (or continent) do you live? How far from China?
Had you got a delivery tracking notice in advance?