Quote from: Anenome5 on June 17, 2013, 07:25:43 AM

Quote from: KS on June 17, 2013, 06:29:49 AM

Quote from: aeronautical on June 17, 2013, 06:21:48 AM

If anyone can deliver it's the guys from opencores.org and theres a very strong link between them and KnCminer. I would in fact say that their normal side of there business at ORSoc
was a little slow because of the EU problems so they simply turned there attention to Bitcoin. There starting position would have been nothing like BFL and Avalon, their starting experience
could only be bettered by someone like Cadence Design Systems who have been buying up industrial IP core for some years and bought lots electronics CAD companies for the past decade.
So the next step up in hardware design would be a contracted CDS by a larger company that wanted to really make an impact or damage Bitcoin.
Lots of the major E-CAD companies used opencores as a starting based for design work. I know i worked for CDS.

But they are entering a whole new ballgame: shipping complete retail products.

Designing the core is one thing, turning it into a product and managing the whole pipeline is quite another. These are two completely different businesses.

They have a company making them, they have a company assembling them, what makes you think they don't have a company shipping them too?

Not what I said.

I meant they're going from and OEM/ODM business to a full retail business. A completely different beast. Already they don't have enough personnel just for support. So, like the others, they're bound to run into snags, which means delays. I'm sure they can iron things out eventually (basically like everyone before them), if they are serious about staying in business. As I said many times already: it's wait and see time.