Quote from: The Avenger on March 06, 2014, 10:26:41 AM

Quote from: Biomech on March 06, 2014, 07:09:08 AM

Quote from: merv77 on March 05, 2014, 02:33:51 PM

'tape out' completed Shocked

this was totally unexpected, now I'm excited Cheesy

Joeventura and his insider information has been wrong with his predictions that there wasn't going to be a physical miner, and I was actually starting to beleive him.

So how long does it take to slice and package wafers? Anyone?

ok ok you can come back Orama... this is good news and we can all be friends again Tongue

Not long. The time consuming parts still ahead are validation and building the mask set. Time to package, if I remember correctly, is around 49 days from tape out.

KNC never announced when they taped out Jupiter, they just said "we did it ages ago" at some point during summer. Where did you get 49 days from? Seems a very precise number if you can barely remember

Edit: Dug it up, in case people think I'm being a classic FUDster Grin

Quote from: kncminer on July 30, 2013, 01:41:06 PM

Hi Guys

We would like to say that. Yes....we did tape-out of the ASIC some time ago. The exact details of the ASIC schedule, volumes, vendor etc. is kept internal since it's very sensitive information towards competitors. The product development tasks are on-track."

We are still on schedule to begin shipping in September.

Thanks
KnCMiner Team

I think I saw it in the BlackArrow thread. I know it was from Global Foundries, that their average was 49 days from tapeout to a delivered package. What I don't recall was how long from wafer to package. I think it was ten days. What I couldn't recall was where I saw it, or I'd have posted a link. I recall the number quite well, because it's odd that it would be odd.