The video looks interesting. Still not convinced - but this at least isn't a quick pump and dump kind of scam. Unfortunately the video doesn't really show much of the hardware - it is a bit dark, can see power cables and stuff - but no asics on the board or anything yet.

Anybody care to do some digging in the video? Anybody see what the pool is they are using? Can we confirm the mining was actually done with the pool or something?

Time is running out? Yet the address to send payments (https://blockchain.info/address/1VbWxiGEa1d89ZigFuWWeP5CjDJSK6Xdi) has 2 transactions a total of 18.1 BTC. What's up with that, am I an idiot?

Only 397 left to ship for Tuesday. I know they have to ramp up, but 3 shipped in a day, seriously!?

Well at least they are giving us updates...

Guys - chill. All they have done so far is announce they are working on something, and given a mailing list to subscribe for updates. They haven't given us any specific details yet and aren't even accepting any money or BTC yet. Their product isn't complete, but they are definitely known to be working with a reputable company on building an ASIC and are not a simple scam.

Until they start taking money, or have made concrete promises (BFL lol) they have done nothing wrong and the ball is in their court. All we need to do is wait until they announce something further - maybe they won't make it, maybe they'll make stupid promises (BFL again), maybe their chips won't work whatever - we don't know yet. Until then though, they have done nothing wrong.

Give them some space, then see what they make, then decide if you want to buy it or not.

By the way whatever happened to the 1/3 1/3 1/3 shipping thing?

want want want - I thought knc was legit from the start. Excited, but extreme patience is required... Send me a review/preproduction/prototype unit please knc .

My order number is: 100027556 3/27/13 - I'm screwed  

[WTS] Human kidney for bitcoins.

Seriously, I could care less exactly how many watts this thing uses - as long as it doesn't catch fire or melt itself as far as I'm concerned it is good to go! Get in production and ship me mine! Wasting a few more KW/H per month matters much less than the ramp up of difficulty that is going on now.

The price blew up pretty quick as expected... These are going to go to people with too much money already.

It says it is 90 GFLOPS. According to a quick google search the 7970 has 3584 SP GFLOP/s, so it doesn't really compare. They are small and low power and relatively cheap - so you might be able to build a board with many of these chips. On the good side, it works with OpenCL - so it shouldn't be hard to port an OpenCL kernel to it.

PM me if you want to chat about it. I can probably point you in the right direction or whatever anyway. I'm not a pro EE, but I've got a pretty good idea on what you need to do.

10,000 Avalon chips will be a lot of GH/s.

The board design will be really simple - Avalon are even going to be providing a complete reference design in May. So it'd be a 1 hr job to order some PCBs and then a whole bunch of skillet reflowing (or contract a proper assembler). Hell, for 6 figures you could buy your own pick and place machine and build them "in-house".

Having said all that, I'll happily take 6 figures for a couple weeks work  .

Yeah, that's fair enough - it just makes the formula a bit trickier, thinking about what will be happening in late June.

Hrm.. that is quite a lot...

Yes, I'll take 100 chips please.

How do we do this? I don't really want to get scammed - not saying you are a scammer, I'm just being cautious. Whereabouts are you in the world?

WANT - that is all

Litecoin could be a killer app. Although it might be better to make a separate product - since you'd probably need ram and stuff that you wouldn't care about for Bitcoin.

I'd want closer to 2GH for a $1k part to even bother at this stage of the game really. I'm interested in the price too though.

Fire up ISE and compile the open source Bitcoin miner for them and see what is has to say for timings/usage. See https://github.com/progranism/Open-Source-FPGA-Bitcoin-Miner