Then may be mining equipment ready to operation will be ready for sales in October-November and probably will be overpriced as those 40 chips for 1000+ USD. Again too late, again too expensive.
The $29.98/chip price is set for small-quantity sampling purposes. Customers will get volume discount when doing bulk purchases.
But I'm sure some Chinese farms will be already equipped (maybe alreade equipped) with SFARDS' miners. Again home miners stays without next gen quiet fast cold (so as dualmode) miner...
SF3301 ASIC is still preparing for mass production, so it's still in the early ramping up stage. Again, the SF3301 is the most efficient dual-algorithm 28nm ASIC in the world. I expect this chip could have long and good life cycle ahead.