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april?! that wishful thinkin imo. i dont think they taped-out yet and from tape-out to production you can assume roughly 60 days. so lets say they tape-out in the coming weeks and need 60 days till the chips arrive. that means the chips arrive in mid may. then also assume that chips doenst mean everything is ready to deliver, you got to bring that thing to work somehow.
that leaves us to a delivered neptune in june, imo.
In stock Neptunes jumped up again from 898 to 909. More refunds? Maybe.
I've got a few preorders with alpha-t.net, a Scrypt ASIC. I'm pretty impressed with their development updates (nearly weekly), along with a forum specifically for customers with all the questions answered, as well as their transparency with their process. It's too bad more manufacturers don't do similar methods.
I'm still keeping my CA batch orders. Better than BFL, CT, HF that's for sure. How they compare to Bitmain will really be a long term question, although I think KnC hardware will run much longer and be more profitable. We'll have to analyze that one down the line.
I have a thread on when the general memberbase thinks the Neptunes are shipping, and the majority feel it's April, which would line up the latest batch during Q2.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/knc-neptune-shipping-speculation-existing-customers-order-384125
@Offtopic individuals, you guys should really keep on topic. Let's focus on KNC (I don't care if we talk about KNC conspiracy theories, facts, or whatever), there are venues available for other discussions.
I've got a few preorders with alpha-t.net, a Scrypt ASIC. I'm pretty impressed with their development updates (nearly weekly), along with a forum specifically for customers with all the questions answered, as well as their transparency with their process. It's too bad more manufacturers don't do similar methods.
I'm still keeping my CA batch orders. Better than BFL, CT, HF that's for sure. How they compare to Bitmain will really be a long term question, although I think KnC hardware will run much longer and be more profitable. We'll have to analyze that one down the line.
I have a thread on when the general memberbase thinks the Neptunes are shipping, and the majority feel it's April, which would line up the latest batch during Q2.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/knc-neptune-shipping-speculation-existing-customers-order-384125
@Offtopic individuals, you guys should really keep on topic. Let's focus on KNC (I don't care if we talk about KNC conspiracy theories, facts, or whatever), there are venues available for other discussions.
april?! that wishful thinkin imo. i dont think they taped-out yet and from tape-out to production you can assume roughly 60 days. so lets say they tape-out in the coming weeks and need 60 days till the chips arrive. that means the chips arrive in mid may. then also assume that chips doenst mean everything is ready to deliver, you got to bring that thing to work somehow.
that leaves us to a delivered neptune in june, imo.
I hear ya man. I don't think they're going to announce all that tape out fab out stuff though. If I'm remembering correctly, and we compare what happened in their first product launch, they were pretty tight lipped, except for leaks by Bitcoinorama. They said they'd ship in late September through October and they did, only late by like 2 weeks. IMO I think we should expect the same, although the Jupiter farm and accompanying announcement makes me a bit nervous. They fucking slammed us with difficulty with that damn farm too! Looks like its complete now though with recent Swedish press and difficulty slowing at the moment.
exactly, they had a timeframe with the Jupiters that lasted till 30th september and they delivered pretty much right at the end of that time frame in the first weeks of october. so if history is going to repeat itself then we wont see any neptunes before early july.
i personally expect them to ship in june but even if they do it in may and with 4000GH/s it wont be profitable anymore.
