Quote from: grnbrg on February 23, 2014, 05:24:19 AM

Quote from: kaneda2004 on February 23, 2014, 05:10:27 AM

grnbrg, has there been any communication with LabRat?
He's been incommunicado for two weeks...

Yes, I've exchanged a couple of emails with him. Not much to share, other than waiting for hardware.

I know we've got a large Monarch order coming, and news from BFL is looking good on that. 'End of December.' Riiiiiiiight....

grnbrg.

Well, with all the respect i'd say Monarch my ass!!!

quoting BFL announcement from 18 Feb:

Chip testing is still in process. There is currently no reports of problems with the chip bring up, but it's been hampered by the wire bonding being a severely limiting factor in being able to adequately test the chip.

To that end, the finished/packaged chips have been delivered to the testing facility this evening. Testing of the fully packaged chips is projected to begin on Wednesday the 19th. This should make testing both easier, faster and more accurate. It will ultimately give us the initial maximum hashrate and power draw of the chips. This process could take anywhere from 1 day to a week or more - until testing is started, its hard to say what is required to finish the testing. If everything works first time around, then it doesn't take long. If there are things that need to be examined closer, it can cause the testing to take longer.

I will update again when there is a change in status.

So my wild guess would be that we wont see any monarch's till mid summer. Prove me wrong. We have been through this in the past, the production blabla is just copy/paste from the Little singles and singles project.