Apparently the chips are in production right now. We know the design has been finalized. They then ship the chips to their PCB assembler and ...
Go back and do it again? Ask BFL how easy it is to go from FPGA to 65nm, so forget 28nm from KNC.
You really think Orsoc is going to make rookie mistakes like that, like BFL made? Come on.
I have visited the ORSoc website, there are FPGA development board. So it is likely to be trusted.
Even ORSoc never make mistake The butterfly did, Unless ORSoc has provided the true module, I still assume the OrSOC and Sam are trying to fool us.
Have you read the thread?
Orsoc has verified that they are working with KNC to build a miner.
Further, Sam built the FPGA miner from scratch in six weeks. That takes engineering chops. They pulled it off. Ask yourself if you'd have any faith at all that BFL could've pulled off a similar feat--I doubt it.
In an industry where time is of the essence, BFL decided to make 'cool' looking miners, with bespoke cases and power supplies. Seriously? No one gives a fuck if a miner looks cool--that's not what miners are for.
Avalon had it right--ship the thing in a big ugly metal box that gets the job done, doesn't cost a ton, and doesn't result in supply-chain delays!
Knc seems to be of the latter sort of businessman--get it freakin' done.
If you won't trust KNC until you see a working ASIC come from their shop then you have to accept receiving in late October at best, and roughly half the profit or less, because there will likely be a mad rush of late orders at that point.
But KNC will soon cut off orders and begin work on their Gen-2, and if gen-1 is the great on-time success we hope, then gen-2 will have a loooooooooooot of customers.
Knc isn't stupid, they know the real money may very well be made in their gen-2 device. And hopefully there will be some perks for people whom believed in them for gen-1.
(Anyway it's kinda hard to understand exactly what your point is, but I did my best to respond.)
