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Re: HashFast announces specs for new ASIC: 400GH/s
by
GalaxyASIC
on 01/01/2014, 18:41:28 UTC
There will be NO MPP ...
any time soon. Here is why I think many of you are blinded by promise of MPP and think that MPP will save you after HF filed to deliver and now wants another 30 days = 90 days past due = same time when they said that MPP program already supposed to kick in.

My take on it is that first HF had to make sure that their chip is working before giving go ahead to make 2nd batch of wafers, because 1st batch was an engineering sample (probably only 1 wafer). Full manufacturing time frame is 12 weeks. HF probably knew that their chip design is ok toward end of December 2013, so count 12 weeks + 2+ weeks for from-wafer-to-full-working-unit-assembly = HF is barely could make MPP by the mid-end of April. Similar delay happen with BFL after they got their engineering sample, but they had said that they pre-manufactured additional wafers (I can't trust that statement) and still there was months of delay for getting 2nd order of wafers.

In contrast, HF is not saying anything about (at least I can't find it) when they will get chips for MPP program for Batch 1 customers which supposed to start in 30 days nor for other batches. Nor are they saying when they will ship MPP program. Nor are they saying when upgrade kits will be provided.

Batch 1 customers already lost 50%+ of their ROI and with 30 more days of delays for first shipment and 3+ month of delay for MPP program I see no way that Batch 1 customers will mine more than 10 BTC