It all begin a few weeks ago when we received an email attached with a PDF containing the person information of some Avalon team members in China. Extortion, a familiar tactic when it comes to the Bitcoin scene and business in China. Threatened to release this information public if we do not pay up; we choose to ignore the demands because the information is quite outdated and some even are inaccurate, making this a low threat.
Everything changed when people started to knock on some team members parent's house looking for them using the information found on the PDF or other sources. This called for a immediate reevaluation of operational security of the Avalon project. This is the main source of delays and lack of communication in the past few weeks. This matter is still on going, but a majority of the Avalon operation has once again been resumed.
Just as this matter is reaching its closure. WSJ prints an mashed article consists of rumors, opinions and pieces of various stories. Avalon whilst under NDA(s) are unable to comment on all aspect of the story. We will however state the following: We were indeed in Amsterdam on Tuesday and had a meeting with TSMC and we will leave it at that for now.
We would also like to take this chance to properly restate that Avalon will from this day going forward will no longer be participating in any form of pre-order, pre-sale type of business operations.


Where we stand

Unit Batches
Batch three have completely left our hands, may DHL be swift in their deliveries. The refunds will shortly follow, this is the same for any tradein orders ( ran into issues such as some people were receiving their address to pay while other are not). we understand we are very late in this department of processing any customer support related issue, we will not be making any excuses, but this is literally the only thing left on our plate now. In the future we hope to eliminate this problem by selling only in stock products that will ship in under 3 days.
On the horizon are two new product designs, we are fairly happy with the batch 3 design, which will conclude as the Avalon Version 1 final design. In addition we will have a new 2 module unit coming to market and a 2U 17inch deep server blade slated as Avalon Version 2.

Chips
While we have send out some chip orders, there is currently ~200k chips stuck in custom right at this moment for about 2 weeks now, this matter is very painful for us and our customers. As majority of the chip orders ( 70% ) totaling ~800k is made between early and mid-may resulting in a tight time frame to work with. We do have more chips coming in via different route next week which will ease this a little bit. (you can take this as chips will resume shipping by end of next week for now.)
We will take this time to fulfill a promise to announce the next generation chip 2 month ahead of schedule so potential buyers can make a decision. Soon we will be disabling the pre-order of Avalon Gen1 chips and only sell the remaining stock as we phase out old technology for a new 55nm, which goes on sale for immediate delivery at mid October 2013. This 55nm will retain the same physical dimension as the 110nm Gen1, only few pads were changed so getting them up and running requires very little change to existing design.
In addition, there is 2 more chip designs in the pipeline, we have decided to proceed developing Gen3 and Gen4 in parallel due to the long R&D time of low processor nodes, both of these will be a Full Custom ASIC design.

is aber anscheinend nich komplett quelloffen

Hi,

Ich hab hier 2 Avalon meiner, auf einem lief offenbar eine speziell overclockte Firmware, da ich dort Tacktraten der Chips in 5er Schritten auswaehlen konnte is 390 Mhz. Schlau wie ich war dachte ich ich mach mal die neuste Firmware drauf und das wars dann auch, weg ist die schoene Overclocking option. Auch liefen die Luefter mit der vorherigen, scheinbar manipulierten Firmware schneller und staerker.

Hat hier jemand Erfahrung mit den Avalon, welche Firmware das ist die dort vorher drauf war?

Danke euch fuer Hilfe.

8 Kein Widerrufsrecht hinsichtlich der Durchführung des Kaufs von Produkten
Da der Preis des von der Fidor-Bank angebotenen Produktes auf Schwankungen des Finanzmarkt basiert, auf welche die Fidor Bank keinen Einfluss hat, steht dem Kunden hinsichtlich des Abschlusses von Geschäften über die Fidor Bank kein Widerrufsrecht zu.

scammer tag beantragt.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=269740.msg2885749#msg2885749

Wo hast du denn den her  http://www.ebay.de/itm/281146987256?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649 den du gerade verkaufst ?

ok so on the Batch#3  Power connector board:   I have 2 x 8 pin -PCI-E Connectors and 1 x 8 pin CPU connector.   What about the 12 pin plug that says "EXT P4"  ?

Or am I good for now?  What about when I pop in another 4th module?  I need a 8 pin Power CPU connector, right?

I recieved 3x 3-module no psu units today!

PS. What plugs from the PSU go into the PDU?

Wenn hier im offiziellen Thread Infos bekannt gegeben werden, glaube ich nicht das sich jemand beschweren kann etwas zu spät erfahren zu haben
Von daher noch ein paar Fragen. Hast du die Netzteile schon parat? Wirst du sie overclocken? Mit 350mhz wären alle Avalons bei 330 ghs damit könnten wir die BTC noch wieder reinbekommen.

I'm screwed. I incorrectly thought the ATX main cable was the only one needed (since, unlike a normal PC where the modular devices need to be powered individually and don't even work otherwise, the Avalon modules all connect directly to the board). I've had power supplies in the past that supported both ATX and AT and I thought this was similar.

I plugged it in yesterday, had a little trouble with the USB not being connected, but after a few times taking it apart and putting it back again, I got it working. It ran great all last night and this morning. When I got back after a meeting, this is what I found:







I emailed Avalon, and they asked me to post here. Talking with the vendor of my power supply (OCZ ZX Series 1250W), he said 600W is too much to go through one wire, but it wouldn't trigger any concerns on their power supply as it doesn't measure power output per wire. The wire itself just melted.

What do I do now? I'm starting the RMA process for the power supply but as for the miner... I don't know where to begin.

I feel discouraged. I feel like an idiot.

habs mal zitiert damits auf alle Fälle erhalten bleibt.

Hast du mittlerweile schon Trackinginformationen bekommen?

Ist gerade wieder on, mit folgender Meldung :

Ich bin etwas verwirrt. Kann mich jemand aufklären.
Haben jetzt welche nun doch ihre bitcoins erhalten wegen Rücktritt
oder muss es trotzdem eine Banküberweisung sein?
Wenn ja, hat schon jemand eine Bank überweisung von candoo erhalten?