Quote from: joeventura on October 19, 2013, 12:07:58 AM

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Quote from: chanson on October 17, 2013, 03:08:00 PM

Allow me to repost the totally bogus order depths chart that can't possibly be anything near reality and that in no way, shape or form suggests that shipping progress hits a wall in mid-late March. It also totally doesn't suggest that we've only made it 50%-60% of the way to the end of April's backorders.

There's actually a wall in the last week of March that extends into April and ends in May, so if they're still at 50 or 60 employees today, the backlog could be stuck at 200+ days for the next few weeks.

50 or 60?? Where did you get that number?

There are EXACTLY 16 people assembling hardware. SIXTEEN

They won't hire more because the parts trickle in the door and assembled units trickle out the door.

By the time people who ordered gear in July/August of 2013 get theirs they will be like Block erupters.

Sixteen huh? You sound really sure about that, too bad you're wrong.

There's 16 in just the one assembly room, another 12 in the 2nd room, and 8 each in the 3rd and 4th rooms. Not to mention the Jalapeno's are outsourced, so there's even more assemblers there.

Well I stand corrected, however my knowledge came from you when you said (paraphrasing) when you (or maybe it was PG) mentioned they hired 8 more to double their assembly team.

So (even more sad now) you are saying that they have 44 people doing assembly?

Did they ever reach 400 units a day? Hey with 44 people, making 9 units a day should be pretty easy.

You're working off a statement made almost a month and a half ago when they only had 1 assembly room... but hey, it's BFL, they never change, right? I heard the record was well over 600 units, but I'm sure you'll take that with a grain of salt as well.

I think part of the problem here is you fail to understand this is not a 1 person operation from start to finish. You need the programmers, the card assemblers, the unit assemblers, the case assemblers, the final assemblers, QA and the testers. If all they had to do was flash a card and ship it like some companies (IF they had chips ), they'd not need 80% of the people.