Sorry Bitsyncom, but you are completely full of shit. Completely. You have repeatedly stated that it's "impossible" to do things, yet somehow BFL manages to do the "imposisble."
Why do you continually prod me with a stick? I have left you alone to go do your own thing with your ancient technology and your ridiculously immense power requirements, yet you want to keep antagonizing me. Why is that?
I really hope you have something to show on Monday, you have about 24 hours to produce, so we'll see then. The fact of the matter is, though, no one is going to buy your 1990's tech after we ship, so enjoy the few weeks of glory you will have if you can manage to ship a working product that doesn't melt.
if the imposisble is to announce numerous delays and alienate others with cutting remarks such as 1990's tech, then yeah BFL has done quite a good job.
I dont have an order with any asic mfg. yet, but it looks like Avalon will be the first to market and the first choice customers. This far, they've shown the most definite shipping date, and even if they release a melting product on monday, it will still be leaps beyond the current state of Butterfly Labs' ASIC, which was supposed to be released In December.
He's just worried.
They probably let him know something unfortunate when he got to the chip plant in Calfifornia.
Take a look at the BFL twitter feed. He said it was a long day. I wonder what that means. Typically you would hear him expunge himself of utter enthusiam for things going great.
I am guessing...something did not go well.
P.S. For the uneducated the packaging part of the process is where they also test and check the chips performance values.