Quote from: iCEBREAKER on December 02, 2013, 09:53:18 PM

Quote from: aerobatic on December 02, 2013, 09:42:56 PM

Quote from: minternj on December 02, 2013, 09:35:19 PM

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=300469.msg3221155#msg3221155

Quote from: cointerra on September 24, 2013, 12:18:09 AM

Significant payments made to fab to expedite process from usual 90+ days to 65 days.

Ah, that was wayyyy back in September... when they expected to tape out in october... and in reality they taped out in early Nov, a month later than planned ;-)

they presumably paid even more expedite fees to speed things up even faster to make up for lost time... since on Nov 8th, when they announced tape-out, they still expected (and announced) they would get their chips back in december, which as you rightly say, wouldnt be possible if they were still on the 65 day schedule... so there must be faster expedite options (that are commensurately more expensive im sure). Perhaps 45-50 day? How many layers are we talking about? 50? how many days per layer...? 0.8? 0.7?

lets wait for an official statement...

If only Cointerra had made "significant payments" to expedite tape-out.

Too bad they couldn't just throw money at their lousy engineers and expect increased competence in return.

How so many people are still clinging to the "mid-Dec" fantasy is beyond me!

I guess they think Santa's ASIC elves are building them Cointerras at the North Pole. Roll Eyes

i think you're getting confused. its a different asic company that has a mid-december fantasy... cointerra's fantasy is late december..!