Re: [FAILED]Butterfly Labs 30 day countdown to the end of September
So tired of hearing "But guys, you can't make predictions because you don't know how many units ship per day!"
Anyway, my optimistic guess is that Singles and Little Singles make it out of 2012 by the end of September. Jallapenos are dead in the water with some bullshit excuse about outsourcing for shutting the line down. Minirigs... who knows. I've heard something about them shipping out singles equivalents to fulfill minirig orders because minirigs take too long to build (my guess is it's something related to testing and QA... you can pull low-performing individual singles out of production after burn-in or perhaps even flash the firmware to convert them to little singles, but you have to actually open up a minirig to find and replace low-performing boards)
The MiniRig takes about an hour to build according to the main builder when asked by Josh in front of bcp19 and myself. They solved the problem of identifying low-performing boards after the build by testing each board prior to its placement. There may be other underlying reasons as to why MR production is scaled back/discontinued.