Quote from: Xian01 on December 14, 2013, 06:35:22 PM

Quote from: lumpycustard on December 14, 2013, 04:18:44 PM

Quote from: PuertoLibre on December 12, 2013, 10:51:54 AM

Bullshit.
Post your references that makes you believe it is 4 weeks, otherwise I call Bullshit/False hope.
There isn't a single manufacturer out there who can have their chips pop out of the factory in 4 weeks. Especially at 28nm.

Right there in the monarch information thread: https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/4414-monarch-information.html
If they haven't taped out then I would certainly agree with you. But I'm not sure why you would assume this hasn't happened.

Not sure if trolling or drank the Kool-Aid...

*mumbles something about history lessons*

Not to mention BFL's seemingly fictitious bullet runs.

They started the bullet runs before October 2012 and didn't get their first -->sample<-- prototype until April 2013.

If they haven't explicitly stated when they started a tape out then, no one should assume it has already happened.

January 9th is the same as people being told in Early November of 2012 that they would be getting their first batch just a few days away. This isn't incompetence, it's just plain lying.

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On the BFL fucked us thread I pointed out that they haven't even shown any photo's of the prototype boards containing any real traces on the board.

They showed a red prototype 1 board. It was basically a board with positioned components. Probably a very early component placement test.
Then they showed a blue prototype 2 board. Missing power connectors and barely any traces along with various components swapped out and repositioned. Probably a test board for heating the components to simulate tolerances for the various components.

Again, it didn't take a genius to figure out they aren't even done with the Monarch PCB. For a rep to come out and say they have a "small" delay is total baloney. Back in November the prototype 2 board was barely even done. There never was any hope for November or December. Maybe no hope for January or even February.

Yet somehow they still post as if they just "needed the chips" and they are good to go. LMAO. Hardly.

Anyone with two eyes and a brain could see this. Luckily those who ordered Monarch are missing at least one of two components. Good for them...