Quote from: Puppet on September 17, 2013, 08:37:24 AM

BTW, getting these chips from Taiwan or wherever they are being cut and packaged to Sweden in under a week is also anything but a given. Granted, I have no experience with Swedish customs, but in most countries that can take several weeks. Unless as someone suggested, you rent a plane or go pick up those chips in person.

Customs isn't that bad. I've received pallets of stuff through customs before and the delay was maybe a couple of hours. Lots of factors go into if something will be held. Not every package is held, not every pallet or container is held. It's almost random to be honest, especially the ports in the states. Unless someone is bribed to target these shipments, I wouldn't worry about weeks of delays being a great likelihood.

Quote from: kwilliams on September 17, 2013, 12:21:29 AM

What matters most next few months is not the capacity shipped but the capacity deployed. Even if KNC ships 5K boxes to right now, expect for them to take weeks to get fully deployed and there will be constant outages (residential internet went down, power lost at the basement, etc)

Weeks to be deployed? Constant outtages? Not everyone is using string and a cup for internet, or solar panels and mice in a wheel for electricity, or curious george to deliver things.

Regarding the chips needing assembly before being put in the system, their news posting covers that--they're being put into SoC packaging before arriving at KNC's doorstep, where they will simply be dropped into the PCB.

Like others have said, people's fears are running amok. If they're late, they're late, and if they're not they're not. Life goes on, the Sun will likely come up the next day.