Have heard the same, next generation Antminer should be available in April with much more power efficience, and Bitmain is one of the companies wich one changes the miner market away from long time pre-orders. Have ordered some S1 since december and must say - very fast delivery (shortest delivery was received three days after order from china to germany!), very good support & contact with Sushi - perfect, only the power consumption of S1 is too high for long time mining...
I think yu will find it is Asciminer/Bitfountain who should be launching their gen3 miners in April, not Bitmain.
However, Bitmain has dropped a tantalising hint on their thread about their next generation AntMiner:
Will these coupons be able to be used for any new products that come out such as the S2?
When S2 comes, we will be issuing coupons again
Speaking of competition, have any Monarchs yet arrived to customers or even been hashing in Kansas City?
LMAO snicker..I have stuff from last april I would have gotten the old 65mm stuff around thanksgiving due to no refunds from bfl (and no help from
lawyers or FTC...hey it took 8 months you'll get it right attitude like it was a late t.v. unit..ie no enforcement)
I expect to see my 900gh of monarch (bricks wall art call it what you will) no earlier then MAY at their present rate
they will use them to fill up their gh farm ..under diff corp and bankrupt bfl and walk with personal assets imho
no knc has nothing to worry about from bfl ..I'm pretty sure the 20mm will be out before I see a bfl product
the hazards of being a noob....even today ...bfl waits to pounce
Searing