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Hey wait a minute Mr Postman-

go have a look at the vid BFL had on their website recently. They had an identically laid out six assembly work benches, staffed by four people who would be sacked in my workplace if they worked that slowly.

The number of benches is fine, with pre-prepped cases and quick workers you can knock out plenty of rigs in quick time. We don't have masses of pre-orders, once they are done and dusted the farm machines will begin to roll out.

Edit- what are you benching? I have a bigger kitchen than the cafe round the corner but it doesn't make me a hot food outlet.

Edit 2 - hey VE are you going to open a mining rig production line in your basement? If so what's your IPO offer? Count me in OK?

Good news everyone, we're even worse than BFL! We're going to be rich!

Are people here delusional or just stupid? The fact that Ken can't show pictures of chips quite obviously means he does not have chips to take pictures of. Not even sample chips which were supposed to arrive in November according to Ken's schedule.

Having problem reading the post?
He even said they are waiting for chips and boards, so no, chips has not arrived, therefore no pics of chips.

When will the chips arrive?

Well, Ken said it would take 9 weeks for sample chips after paying the NRE costs. They should have arrived n November, but Ken said he had to redesign them. It would be logical to assume that it will take another 9 weeks for new samples, so they should arrive in late January/early February. If that's the case, then mass production won't be happening till around April/May.

Before more misinformation is spread, Masbark has no idea how the Backend Design/Mask/Fab Time process works as per his comment above.

A total redesign never needed to happen and I'm not sure where he read this or got this information.

In the event a minor redesign needed to happen (most of the backend design is done and considering eASIC is a 1 Mask Layer process, it wouldn't take very long at all and they would likely skip the sample chips)

Secondly if it were just sample chips and they were coming in "April/May" (lol) then why would he be prepping now by saying "We are working on assembling everything, so when our boards and chips arrive, we can ship the miners fast."

Do you think that sample chips would be enough to ship even a remote amount of product to customers?

The more likely scenario is the redesign process, mask process at Fab is and has been done already and they are making the chips as we speak. We should probably see the first Chips coming in Mid to Late January. As I'll be visiting in Mid January I'm hoping for that date as I will be taking Pictures and possibly Video as long as Ken lets me.

It seems we have traded Crumbs out for Masbark which is unfortunate as at least Crumbs sometimes made valid points :/

I said sample chips would be Jan/Feb. According to Ken, samples take 9 weeks and full production takes 16-18 weeks. Do the maths. Also, I've been here since the very beginning and my arguments are and always have been based on the available information.

Face it, Ken fucked up and ActM is going to be far less profitable than it should have been. Full production will not be happening till April, even by your maths.