Re: Black Arrow 28nm 100Ghash Bitcoin ASIC from $1.99/GH/s, miners from $2.97/GH/s
The BA forum ecointalk has disappeared 
It's back now.yep and they're still not answering questions on status. simple enough to answer whether or not they've gone to tapeout. similar questions posted to their social media pages are being pulled down.
this is not looking promising in terms of an on-time delivery, or a minor delay, for that matter. They've got nothing to show with one month until delivery but a heatsink and some CAD drawings of the cases - and won't answer questions. If there is more, snap a few pictures, for crying out loud, instead of giving BS answers like this one from their forum, posted by staff today in a thread asking for an update:
"Updates will be posted when they are available, i can understand your points however, but i prefer well working product instead of couple of shiny pictures myself. I can make you a picture of thousands different parts in 3d, will it make you more happy?"
Simply put, that's crap. customers are asking for updates, and rightfully so at this point, as this is looking very bad at this point in the timeline.
an honest update for those people that have in good faith sent thousands of dollars is not too much to ask. if you're going to be late, fine, but it's time to level with your customers, BA.
don't get your panties in a bunch, i would rather have them work on the product`s then waste time posting pics / answer every question 100 times over.
Thanks for your condescending input. Asking for clarification is not getting one's panties in a bunch. I and others have asked nicely for weeks on their forums and social media sites for clarification and gotten nothing but equivocations and assertions that everything is on schedule, all the while showing no actual proof of progress, unless you consider a CAD rendering proof of progress, in which case I've got a bridge to sell you.
At a certain point patience runs thin, and we're there. We're ~30 days from scheduled delivery and, last time I checked the hashing rate of a heatsink was 0.
They can answer a simple question and snap a couple of pictures related to where they're at in production without slowing down development. Any sane person would think that a simple, honest, update at this point would not be too much to ask.