Quote from: alh on December 11, 2017, 08:53:06 PM

Quote from: BoardDesigner on December 11, 2017, 07:00:56 PM

I reached out to Bitfury recently. They quoted 8.15 U.S. a chip and minimum buy of 2 million dollars. not realistic for the hobby engineer.....

An interesting question: Over what time frame would BitFury supply your roughly 245,000 chips if you were to cut them a check for $2M USD? I can understand why you wouldn't have pursued it, but I would think that 245K chips would be a pretty good sized run at a Fab facility, no? I also wonder what level of testing/screening has been done for those parts? I am hardly an ASIC guy, but I have seen the results of poorly screened processors, before the processor vendor has figured out what has to be screened for. Does the recipient of the parts have to speed sort (aka "bin") them?

Maybe NotFuzzy would care to speculate on this (keeping his flame on "low")?

I've recently reached out myself (12/20) and can corroborate this. I was quoted "We can offer our 75GH/s chips at USD8.15 per chip, with a minimum order value of USD2M."

Also offered was an Integrator Pack:

"The integrator pack consists of 1 full B8 server, 100 chips and 15 control chips. Price for the integrator pack is USD7500."

I asked further questions regarding delivery, pickup, and timelines:

"Due to current market demand it can take up to 6/7 months"

"The integrator pack can usually be delivered within 25 days"

"Delivery time on the B8 at the moment can be up to 6/7 months"

"All products are sold ex works, so will require pick up. The integrator pack will need to be picked up in Amsterdam, the subsequent chip order in korea"

To purchase any of this, it all needs to be a part of the $2M order, which is a bummer since now that BitMain raised the price of their miners in the last batch the $/TH is in their(BitFury's) favor.