Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on August 29, 2013, 06:55:14 PM

Quote from: notlist3d on August 29, 2013, 06:39:19 PM

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Or become a chip company and focus on providing chips for others to use in their product.

In the long run I think the successful ones will. Look at Bitfury. They sell no boards to the public instead they wholesale chips and rely on three major OEM (US, EU, Russia). Think of how well that allows them to focus on the core task of chips, chips, chips. Given their 55nm design has higher efficiency (J/GH and GH/mm2) than some 28nm designs it seems to be working. If I was a ASIC company I would be worried about what a 28nm die shrink will look like.

Even AMD doesn't make graphics cards. They make GPUs for a dozen or so OEMs which make graphics cards.

I think if they did it right its a option to. They just have had a really horrible run at time frames. I'm all for progress if they could ship massive amounts of quality chips would be great.

I don't envy BFL though even if they had the best chip plan, with past record will be hard to get community to accept it or invest. They really would have to buy with their own money then sell from stock they have. Once stock runs out mark as out till they get next batch. Any pre-order i dont think will provide them with many customers.