Quote from: BR0KK on April 03, 2013, 02:07:16 PM

Quote from: fulepp on April 03, 2013, 01:56:09 PM

I believe this huge amount of talk about the first device delivery because few people put some bobs on the table... That is fine... (if you like gambling...) But at this point i feel somebody try to cheat... (last minute video with a test board...)

Although, this is 3rd of April. Over the Easter holidays... and still... I can't see any official announcement from BFL about the shipment. As far I am considered that product what was shipped / not shipped is a test board for a developer (paid or not paid by BFL that's an other question).

Couldn't find any proud video / picture / post from BFL where we could see the ASIC mining continuously. That video what was uploaded was not the final product, it was not in the box what will be used to ship products to users, it was on the same test desk what we saw earlier, etc. At least i hope my ASIC rig will be nicely packaged. That is an other question when it will happen (in April or in December...).

BFL/Josh, when will you receive the new PCB? When will you have the final product ready and start to ship to users? (talking about real delivery not about the shipping of the developer units)

I am afraid to ask for any compensation for this huge delay (I am talking about promised first delivery in October). Every day is a huge loss for your customers who put faith in you and supported this development with their money!

From the ASIC Update thread:

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28 March 2013 - Mini-Update

I had wanted to post a video tonight, but wasn't able to make that happen, so let me apologize for that in advance. As some of you may know from the chatbox, we have been working diligently to get these ASICs out the door. We've been tracking down a power issue these last few days and have it isolated to a few key systems. In the interest of time, we are planning on potentially scaling back units hashing speed as required to accommodate the extra power and shipping multiple units to those that want their units right now. If would would prefer to wait for a unit after we've made some changes to the systems that need a bit of tweaking, we will be happy to put your shipment on hold. However, if you'd rather have the units right now at an increased power usage, we will ship you as many units as required to get you to the hashrate your purchased, if we end up having to scale back any given class of unit to fit within the power envelope of the current board design.

We have the current design hashing, and as I said, I had hoped to have a video of a unit hashing here in KC, but I wasn't able to bring that all together tonight, but hopefully I can get it posted up tomorrow or by this weekend. I will update as soon as I have more news to share, with a video.

If you absolutely do not want a unit that is consuming more power than expected, you can let us know you'd like to wait for a revised unit or you are welcome to request a refund. If you'd rather have your units shipped regardless of increased power usage, we will still guarantee your hashrate by shipping you however many units are required to achieve your purchased hashrate. There is no need to contact us right now if you are not concerned about the power usage and just want your units shipped ASAP. Even with the increased power demand on these first units, they will still out perform any competing products by a very wide margin in terms of power and megahash/J.

Again, we apologize for the delay, but we are almost there.

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I want to clarify the above post, as there is some potential confusion. We are not shipping yet. We plan on shipping possibly by the end of next week, but I will update on a shipping schedule as soon as I have more definitive information with regards to that.

Weaseling out of missed specs and so on Wink

Thanks for the reply! Really appreciated.

I did read through on the forums and i did come across these news earlier. Although it happened almost 1 week ago. Can't find any other fresh post. I found just some updates on twitter. https://twitter.com/BFL_News So I guess the quoted info about shipping products as it is mentioned in the quote is no stand any more. Is it a correct assumption?

Why BFL leave the community to guess what are the next steps?

I really miss the official update from them. Be quiet so long, release video what just make more speculation is not a very good strategic. At least not from my point of view...
What are the new specs what they mentioned???

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grnbrg - Before I get a flood of questions, I was just quoting BFL_StevenM's intro to a brief Shoutbox Q&A. It wasn't an invitation.
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Overclocking is not a supported option. Custom enabling of chip cores or speed adjustments are not supported at this time.
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* New boards testing this week. (...) I'd guess shipping next week.
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* Power affects everything. Jalapeno may have to ship with external power. And possibly air cooling.
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* Chips count per device may change, depending on results this week
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BFL_StevenM (Shoutbox) - Got an engineer near me. Spam your questions and I'll try to pick a few.
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Luke-Jr (Shoutbox) - if you have a Single-class device, you can use bfgminer git for it (https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer )
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BFL_Josh (Shoutbox) - We will be honoring the 1000 BTC donation to charity. We haven't decided what charity/ies we will be donating to yet.
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