From a practical standpoint, there isn´t too much they can do.
If they don´t deliver a product then you will be entitled your money back, fraud protection law covers you there.
As far as the exact timescale goes, it is ofcourse in the hands of the company to get everything out of the door on time.
However, what i have seen from them by now, they deployed the 1st generation on time, even finishing shipping faster than the deadlines.
(A reminder: all April units have already shipped, and April still has 10 days....)
Therefore it isn´t too much of a gamble trusting the August delivery will be on time, especially as chips are already scheduled to arrive early-mid July and a few early bird
orders will actually be fulfilled by the end of July.
IF they for any reason don´t make the deadline, i am sure they will figure out some kind of compensation.
On a side note: Hashfast had a protection against late delivery, but nobody has yet received any compensation although nearly all of their products are late, and refund requests are often ignored, although they were promised.
Very accurate. You've saved me a lot of writing. Thanks.
Some dates:
1st gen ASICs arrived on 27 February, we had testing boards ready and working in the same day and fully working miners within 3 days (due to the weekend...)
We're taping out RockerBox in the beginning-mid of May, we'll have the ASICs ready in the beginning-mid of July.
We've already sold out our July batch (small number of miners). We'll ship all July batch during July.
We'll start producing August batch by the end of July.
As already discussed in our thread, the RockerBox ASIC is a relative simple die shrink (40nm -> 28nm) of our 1st gen Hammer ASIC. Same engine, etc.
We're doing extensive verification and FPGA simulation nevertheless.
The entire project is on track for delivery on time and on spec.
We intend to be here for a long time. In case of a Force Majeure event that will cause a delay. We'll find a way to compensate our customers and make them whole.
We don't intend to discuss the exact mechanism because it won't happen.
The deceitful respond would be "full refunds".
