Topic: [Group Buy] BFL ASICs, + Board Design Underway. - page 8. (Read 15454 times)
how will the credit program be incorporated into this group buy?
I have 64 chip credits, and am interested in this group buy (as well as any project to build rack-mount ASIC blades).
Excellent news. Time to get to work.
I've got some chip credits to put toward a group buy and am interested ~32 chips. Is this the only BFL chip group buy thread at the moment?
BFL BitForce SC Firmware source code Thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=235312.0;topicseen
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=235312.0;topicseen
Hey Josh just released the chip spec sheet on the original post. You'll need an account there to download it.
https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3014-butterfly-labs-announces-bulk-chip-sales.html
https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3014-butterfly-labs-announces-bulk-chip-sales.html
i wll follow this Thread,
i would also buy 10- 50 Chips, 50 Chips for 3750$ by Wire
nice would be if we could share the first Payment 2x 1875$ to proceed faster,
but this depends on the Plans from BFL when and to whom they show it ?
In the Moment we got someone who can produce the PCB's fast, i'm so in (but then its probably too late)
i would also buy 10- 50 Chips, 50 Chips for 3750$ by Wire
nice would be if we could share the first Payment 2x 1875$ to proceed faster,
but this depends on the Plans from BFL when and to whom they show it ?
In the Moment we got someone who can produce the PCB's fast, i'm so in (but then its probably too late)
Maybe I could help, did the CAD of S-HASH within a week.
It's the 16 Avalon board we are working on posted earlier:
http://imgur.com/s7vQDzi
Need the pinout + package style first then. Spec
and samples can follow later.
intron
watching and very interested
interested
https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3272-customer-appreciation-chip-credit-program.html
Anyone who has a pre-order with BFL gets a discount on chips, down from $75/chip to $50/chip. Might be worth grouping a bunch of discount codes and buying a batch!
Anyone who has a pre-order with BFL gets a discount on chips, down from $75/chip to $50/chip. Might be worth grouping a bunch of discount codes and buying a batch!
The wording of inaba's OP at bfl doesn't suggest that the codes can be grouped:
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you will receive a $25 credit per chip
His wording doesn't exclude it at all, and while it's not explicitly stated it wouldn't make sense to make the codes transferable if you can't use someone else's codes along with yours.
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Terms: While we do not have the facilities or the ability to facilitate chip transfers directly, the chip credit codes are transferable from one person to another and we do not limit the resale or transfer of the chip credit codes. The customer is responsible for doing their due diligence when buying, selling or trading the codes, so please be sure to only trade with trusted, verified individuals.
https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3272-customer-appreciation-chip-credit-program.html
Anyone who has a pre-order with BFL gets a discount on chips, down from $75/chip to $50/chip. Might be worth grouping a bunch of discount codes and buying a batch!
Anyone who has a pre-order with BFL gets a discount on chips, down from $75/chip to $50/chip. Might be worth grouping a bunch of discount codes and buying a batch!
The wording of inaba's OP at bfl doesn't suggest that the codes can be grouped:
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you will receive a $25 credit per chip
I suspect there are a lot of people who will want to cash in their chip credits, but few who will want to pay the $50 cost. Anyway, I am interested in providing $1200 in credits to anyone that can return 8 chips mounted on a PCB that will mine.
Finally, the news is released.
The chip credit program will be a huge boon for chip sales. The BFL chips are now $12.5/(GH/s) for people that have chip credits, which is by far the best price available.
Codes are transferable, so they should be fine to use in the group buy once they are aggregated together. If you do not have chip credits but are still interested, I am looking to acquire codes. Obviously the price of the chips if you don't have codes will end up being somewhere between $50 and $75. Where on that scale it ends up will depend on how easy codes are to come by.
The chip credit program will be a huge boon for chip sales. The BFL chips are now $12.5/(GH/s) for people that have chip credits, which is by far the best price available.
Codes are transferable, so they should be fine to use in the group buy once they are aggregated together. If you do not have chip credits but are still interested, I am looking to acquire codes. Obviously the price of the chips if you don't have codes will end up being somewhere between $50 and $75. Where on that scale it ends up will depend on how easy codes are to come by.
https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3272-customer-appreciation-chip-credit-program.html
Anyone who has a pre-order with BFL gets a discount on chips, down from $75/chip to $50/chip. Might be worth grouping a bunch of discount codes and buying a batch!
Anyone who has a pre-order with BFL gets a discount on chips, down from $75/chip to $50/chip. Might be worth grouping a bunch of discount codes and buying a batch!
i wll follow this Thread,
i would also buy 10- 50 Chips, 50 Chips for 3750$ by Wire
nice would be if we could share the first Payment 2x 1875$ to proceed faster,
but this depends on the Plans from BFL when and to whom they show it ?
In the Moment we got someone who can produce the PCB's fast, i'm so in (but then its probably too late)
i would also buy 10- 50 Chips, 50 Chips for 3750$ by Wire
nice would be if we could share the first Payment 2x 1875$ to proceed faster,
but this depends on the Plans from BFL when and to whom they show it ?
In the Moment we got someone who can produce the PCB's fast, i'm so in (but then its probably too late)
Is there a datasheet on this BFL chip out already?
A pinout and a chip package would be enough at
this point.
intron
A pinout and a chip package would be enough at
this point.
intron
There is nothing in this thread about board design.
...if and when BFL starts releasing documentation.I won't say I'm not worried about the 100 day timeline slipping a little, but then I'm worried about Avalon being able to deliver chips to the April 16th orders within the next week and a half to meet their 10 week deadline. I would say that people who buy BFL chips have more to worry about from Bitfury, KnC and Avalon V1 than Avalon V2 at this point.
There is nothing in this thread about board design.
...if and when BFL starts releasing documentation.There is nothing in this thread about board design.
Third post. The design is being slowly worked on doing things like getting the overall purpose nailed down, building packages for the chips that will be needed, and getting some work done on the DC/DC. Unfortunately even a prototype won't be possible until BFL releases more information on their chips and design. At this point it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to spend a lot of time on work that might either be invalidated with more information, or just duplicated by the reference design released by BFL. Ideally we'll be able to get really serious about it next week if and when BFL starts releasing documentation.
Put me down for 32 chips.
Great, sounds good. I am currently awaiting some more information from BFL on their timelines, but hope to be able to place an order sometime in the next week.
There is nothing in this thread about board design.
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