Topic: Re: Black Arrow 28nm 100Ghash Bitcoin ASIC from $0.49/GH/s - page 108. (Read 96804 times)

He hasn't answered my 2 PMs.. Not surprising.

I know it.  This delay has turned these into losers before they even ship. 

KnC is coming online in May/June, their 3 TH/s units will start going out and their mine will come online.  BA will also supposedly start shipping/mining somewhere in this timeframe, neither of which is going to help with that chart.
 
according to retrocalc this delay has cost 10.5 BTC per X-3, ie, even at the current price they'd be close to break even at this point and would start generating some profit for people.  Now they're useless junk with a price tag of 6 thousand dollars.  Not acceptable at all.

Exactly.

Look at the rise in difficulty since BA's failure to deliver in February and the difficulty now. With their (very likely) failure to deliver in May, even if they manage to deliver in July or August, it still represents a massive hit to the potential return that these (as yet unbuilt) miners may produce.

ROI anyone? Unlikely.

 

The funny thing is that the database still isn't migrated fully since my email isn't recognized by the system and bobsag3 is ignoring the issue again. It's been almost 5 months.

Posted on Blackarrowsoftware.com

Bitcoin Miners progress update – 17 April 2014

1. Minion

    · The wafers have been shipped as confirmed by Global Foundries

    · The packaging supplier business partner received the wafers.

2. Control board – final design

    · We received the LCD samples however testing proved unsatisfactory. New bespoke sample will be delivered to us in the next few days.

3. Heatsink

· First batch shipment received.

4. X3 hashboard

· The X3 hashboard sample has been tested and approved. Our engineers were happy to report that testing scored very highly on performance. Agreed delivery schedule with our manufacturing partner

5. X3 backplane

· Final testing under way. We expect to complete the testing results by Monday.

6. X3 Fan

· First batch delivery expected at the end of next week

7. X3 Power Supply

Under production

8. X3 case

    ·Final design has been completed, waiting for the sample.

    ·Plastic mold is being manufactured

9. X1 hashboard

· PCB has been assembled.

10. X1 backplane

· A placement problem for the Ethernet connector has been found , we need to remake the board.

12. X1- Fan

· First batch delivery expected at the end of next week

14. X1 case

· Final design approved and sent to the factory which is going to start manufacturing the mold..

This update sounds pretty positive imo.

So where did the money go that was being used for the SHA chip?  In the first post, it says that you did not have to open up for pre-orders because the chip was already 70% funded and you can get the rest of the money easily.  But that you would open up pre-orders anyway (in retrospect this should have been a huge tip off, but that's neither here nor there).  Now, nearly all of the money taken in from pre-orders is being used to fund production costs of the chip (hence why no refunds are being distributed), care to comment on where all the money is?

Edit:  Since our preorders (likely estimated in the millions of dollars) is only being used for 30% of development, we are looking at one hell of an expensive chip if we are too believe that first post.

Thousands of dollars in capital gone, thousands in revenue gone. Were did it go? Into developing a Scrypt ASIC to ensure that any customer who's still able to make buck mining with a GPU gets fucked.

You've tarnished the reputation of all Romainian's Alex, may history continue to shit on your backwards country.

Apparently there is some information that david knows but isn't allowed to share.. which makes no sense to me because if there is information that will stop people from thinking there will be a second delay, shouldn't it be shared? But whatever.

Also, BOBSAG3, my email still isn't showing up in your database. And for God's sake, implement https for the login page

And what is this information given to you that we, the unwashed masses, aren't privy to?

that s what they shared via fbook:


BA 4/17 Update
1. Minion
· The wafers have been shipped as confirmed by Global Foundries
· The packaging supplier business partner received the wafers.
2. Control board – final design
· We received the LCD samples however testing proved unsatisfactory. New bespoke sample will be delivered to us in the next few days.
3. Heatsink
· First batch shipment received.
4. X3 hashboard
· The X3 hashboard sample has been tested and approved. Our engineers were happy to report that testing scored very highly on performance. Agreed delivery schedule with our manufacturing partner
5. X3 backplane
· Final testing under way. We expect to complete the testing results by Monday.
6. X3 Fan
· First batch delivery expected at the end of next week
7. X3 Power Supply
Under production
8. X3 case
·Final design has been completed, waiting for the sample.
·Plastic mold is being manufactured
9. X1 hashboard
· PCB has been assembled.
10. X1 backplane
· A placement problem for the Ethernet connector has been found , we need to remake the board.
12. X1- Fan
· First batch delivery expected at the end of next week
14. X1 case
· Final design approved and sent to the factory which is going to start manufacturing the mold..

And I asked you:

...And you ignored it and probably will ignore this post as well.
http://ecointalk.net/topic/392-black-arrow-weekly-production-update/?p=3490

Apologies if I've overlooked some of your previous ten posts, but do you work for BA and base your confidence on material information or perhaps you don't work for BA and base your confidence purely on optimism?

If it's the former it's about time you spoke up and provided more details and if it's the latter it's about time you kept quiet.

We've heard many confident people as well as some ardent supporters of BA who based their confidence on optimism only who believed BA's ability to deliver hardware promised in February and now, three months on, people are no nearer to receiving their miners which in many cases were purchased last year.

You'll forgive me if my scepticism overrides my optimism.

 

Regardless, since the new deadline has been made, no official BA remark has been made about whether or not the current deadline is within ascertaining. Many have asked, but BA cannot take the literally 2 seconds to state they believe it is still possible to hit this deadline.  Personally, if it were my company and many people were starting to spread rumors about if I would hit my targets, I would quickly issue a statement deconfirming their myths, and yet, they allow us to spread FUD based on our calculations, when we have no real knowledge of the process.  It just does not make sense to me, especially since they are continuing to sell products, I just believe it would be much easier to jump on quick and say, "we can definitely meet this deadline" instead of allowing people to continue to tarnish the delivery date and probably skew sales.

All aboard! 





But seriously, watching BA break their promise of February delivery when they swore blind that everything was on schedule was like watching a train wreck in slow motion. We all knew it was going to happen, it was just a question of when the point of impact would be.

There's been some reassuring noises made about the delivery scheduled for May and hopefully they do manage to deliver but it's hard to see it not being another absolute failure.

 

He said 4 weeks from today +/- a week.

Well put 

give me a fucking break.   you've posted some pretty stupid shit since you've taken on this new role, but this takes the cake.  If your sockpuppet comments are not funny enough, your MO is typically to belittle people after supposedly coming onboard to facilitate communications. 

You wrote:

"What I am going to try is offer constructive criticism, improve customer relations and will try to provide you with some answers."

You're doing a stellar fucking job, if your job description is being a snide asshole to customers of the company.

people want simple answers as to whether or not they are still on schedule for this May 1 date.  if you don't have them shut the fuck up and stop acting like a little bitch because your golden goose is shitting all over it's customers.

I dunno.  It also says the chips are out for packaging and they are still testing the backplane.

when I think prototype it's a complete, functional, unit.  if they had an actual working prototype it likely would've made the list.

This type of tech is not my field, although it's similar in a lot of ways, and we have all sorts of methodologies for testing things without having all components.  It is typical for us, for instance, to use resistors to simulate load, eg, use a 'dummy load' to test components, subsystems, etc.  I think it's likely that there are similar devices/methodologies for testing of these sorts of components as well, although I could be totally wrong.

Let the flood of refunds commence, BA care to jump on here and share your thoughts on the delivery schedule and what we are looking at?  Hopefully provide a little more than, "we are on schedule"?

My email still isn't showing up in the database.