I think KnC will shipped the Neptunes faster than we think.
They always overdelivered.
Haaaaaaaaaa haha. They haven't even taped out, they are still working on neptune chip design. No way you'll see diddly in Q1.
What is the atmosphere like on planet "SelfDelusion", the biggest planet of them all in the knc thread?
... Didn't it take like 2~ months for them to ship Mecuries, Jupiters, Saturns once they taped out? And that was their first time at it. Why would it be slower now? That would still be in Q1 if it meets.
EDIT: Are Jupiters really going for $15,000 on ebay? What....
knc never announced when they taped out in mid 2013, so no one actually knows if it took 2 or 3 months.
Standard is about 64 days. February is 28 days long. China have a 2 week holiday coming up where the country shuts down. Q1 ain't going to happen. But if you can't read the signs, feel free to delude yourself that neptunes will arrive next week for all I care.
You have no idea if they have or haven't taped out yet. Once you have a working chip at 28nm, switching to 20nm is more of a manufacturing issue, which puts most of the schedule pressure on when TSMC can deliver.
Watch the video searing posted, which says they are still working on the neptune chip design.
Also, that video shows I was right about Jupiter production going ahead in January for byteminr.
In the last minute of that video, you'll see obama say they are selling more Jupiters later this month.
Like I said, they need you sucka's to pay the full marked-up Jupiter price to cover production costs for the "at cost or less" units for byteminr. Believe me, byteminr are going in big and these new jups ain't going to be worth anything in one difficulty change after shipping finishes
P.S. And the remark it'll be "first come first served" also bares out my guesstimate from a while back that they will only sell a limited number of units. Which surely indicates the Jupiter price will be going up, rather than down, as lots of people here seem to think...