Topic: Black Arrow 28nm 100Ghash Bitcoin ASIC from $0.49/GH/s - page 271. (Read 787053 times)

That will remain the price being for now as far as I know.

We get a discount on the equipment yes (lol duh), but all the airfare is 100% out of my pocket. I paid to see them in person because I wanted answers. Harder to dodge when you show up to their office


But in all fairness, it was a fairly pleasant set of meetings, lots of things that need to be fixed are hopefully going to start, especially communication. The biggest thing I got off the meeting was they are in this for the long run, not just the minion.

EDIT: I WISH I GOT EXTRA MILES.

Thank you Bobsag3 for your travel to GB and all those fresh informations.

What bout people who ordered at the end of November and paid +1050 USD at the beginning of december, 5.990 USD... Bach 1 full price...

No official statement from me about this

No, hopefully 2 weeks from May 1.

Think it's Batch 1 and 2 shipped first 2 weeks of May.

Within 2 weeks from today (2/6/2014)?

And what about refunds

How exactly is this going to work, I haven't heard of BAS official confirmation that the assembly of the goods would be done and shipped within 2 weeks.

Not at this time. Our meetings were more preliminary than anything, we will have more in the next few days.

Also stops me from editing it. Ill stand by these words to the best of my abilities.

No, with this delay at least minersource will be hiring additional people, we expect to get both batch 1 and 2 out the door within 2 weeks.

Also:

For further compensation from minersource, all 2nd day air packages will be upgraded to next day saver, all next day customers will get their shipping refunded. We may also be including a special gift

They have the production capacity to make both batches in 1 week, but shipping for them and us will take at least 2 weeks per batch.

what if there never was a feb batch 1, batch one is batch 2 and batch 2 is batch one....

Not necessarily...they already had two runs in the pipe line...but the first Fab run was a wash...so now they have to double the second production run to make up for Batch1. So it makes sense for them to ship at Batch2.

I appreciate it.

I have arrived back in denver, I will get some quick things out quick, then going to pass out.


Communication:
BA and the re sellers are putting together a new system of communication, to aid in the internal communication, and the communication with our customers and the community. We are looking at a bevy of options, including some sort of newsletter, to official twitter. Please let us know if you have any suggestions.

Customer Service:
I have completed highering of additional guys here at minersource, and they are working through training now. Expect better response times, and phone hours in the future. BA has also hired many additional staff and should see an improvement as well.

Tape out/Verisilicon/Chips
Besides what is covered under NDA (I know I know... but a NDA is a NDA), I can assure you I have seen the full contracts with BA and Verisilicon, and that BA has paid them in full. The other re sellers can confirm this. Based on all the info I have, the May 1 day is quite firm. No guarantees as you guys know by now, but thats the best I can do.

Status of other Parts:
The PCBs pretty much designed (waiting for those final pin specs as said before), the heatsinks are done, the custom 1400w psus are done, the controller and its software are in their final phases. I will get additional info and pictures on this as soon as I can.

We will also have a much greater presence at trade shows, we will publish a list as soon as we sign up for them. We will at least be at Quakecon 2014.


EDIT2:
I have some pics from the trip... nothing really important or relevant, but id be happy to post them if anyone wants.

we're a majority here that hope success for the project that Black Arrow LEAD lately, and concerning these trolls who make anti advertising we know why you do that and your bitcoins you put them in your asshole, fagots

Thanks Matt, looking forward to a substantive update.

Thx, looking forward to news!


Wow, that's an unexpected change (yes I did read the whole lot). I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong or can be (dis)trusted....I can almost only conclude you must have spotted something in whatever has been driving your quest that makes you doubt your previous statements (maybe only ever so slightly). Interesting...


But he did say they should have notified earlier....implying directly when they found out about the delay, which, like you mention, did not happen.

It is my understanding that from tapeout to receiving packaged chips averages about five weeks. This means that you (as in your team, not necessarily you personally) were aware on or about December 15th that you would be unable to hit the target.

Note that I am not an engineer, but that seems to be the consensus from the engineers I know as well as a number of sources on the web.