Re: [ActiveMining] The Official Active Mining Discussing Thread
That gives targets of:
* November for samples,
* December for low volume production,
* February for mass production.
So they will have their inefficient FPGA copy-paste chips later than the competition? And that's if everything goes well?* November for samples,
* December for low volume production,
* February for mass production.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=252531.msg3027753#msg3027753
"We are allowed to confirm that the BTC were converted some time ago and the
board designs are in progress."
Exhibit A.)
If we in the board design stage I believe we are somewhere in Floorplanning. If you count up the segments of the design flow you'll see we have nine stages in an 8-10 week process, so I think it's fair to say that each phase takes an average of around a week. So ActM is likely 2-3 weeks deep into production process that, max, takes 10 weeks. I estimate that we started production on August 5 (I think Ken's "quite some time ago" and the speed at which TradeHill can convert BTC to USD would agree with this estimation.) Lets assume a full 10 weeks from Aug 5. That places tape-out between October 7th and 14th.
Meaning we can start manufacturing the FastHash and start shipping chips for income and dividends somewhere in early to mid October. I'd say we could be shipping devices by the end of November.