They'll raise their prices then offer discount coupons for future orders.

Asicminer has fallen behind, as there is a great deal of competition now. When they were dominate, there was not nearly as many ASIC designs out there.

However it's not 'over' by a long-shot. The company is still in a great position to maintain a sizable chunk of the mining network. Even today they are a fantastic deal for their dividends, paying over a 40% yearly annual return, making buying Asicminer shares a good alternative to mining in this super-chaotic period of change over to all-ASICs.

For Asicminer's future, a lot depends on the next month when new mining gear comes online, and hopefully around the end of the October, when the gen 2 design is revealed. Asicminer does have the knowledge and resources to pull off something impressive.

Friedcat recently purchased some forum advertising spots so there's a lot of anxious people waiting to see what that will be about, including myself...

Alright, I am back in town and back to work.

Good news today, I managed to salvage two of the boards that were defective from the PCB house. Thank god too, because I really didn't want to lose the one with 8 ASICs on it. It's definitely a kludge, one board has Vdd shorted to ground but a good MCU, the other has problems with the JTAG interface that prevent me from programming but a good VRM and set of ASICs.

There were a couple issues, chiefly that the new build of the firmware meant for the 8 chip boards is having some issues and wasn't hashing so I had to hack together some code on the old 4 chip test board to get it to work. It behaves really strangely too, cgminer reports twice the hashrate that it's actually putting out. If I had to hazard a guess I'd say it has something to do with having ASICs 0-3 on SPI1 and 4-7 on SPI2, and my hacked code just has it looking for 8 on each bus. Bitminter reports it nicely at 27GH/s though.

The other issue is that the early code doesn't do a good job up keeping the ASICs feed with work. You can clearly see the dips in output current, which is quite different from the straight line you get when all 8 engines are loaded up at the same time and hashing test cases during startup. Once the issues with the new code base are resolved, that should get resolved. It will be interesting to see what kind of hashrates are achievable with grade A chips and some more optimized code.

The other problem is that the ASICs actually get quite hot, even with the closed loop water cooler. The only TIM pads I had laying around was a roll of 3M 5590H, and while it's decent stuff for most applications the 0.5mm thick 3.0W/mK really isn't effective enough for the kind of heat load these chips put out. I'll have to order some 0.5mm 12-17W/mK material, and I might be adventurous and try it with just grease.

I'm really hoping the number of requests sent for a single company within such a short time span isn't the issue and they'll still get back to you guys.  If nobody hears anything within the next day or so I'm just going to post the information publicly and maybe THAT increase in volume will encourage them to act.

Or at least ask if there's a blue light in the window. If there is, then I have a clue as to who he may be, especially if there's a sign on the door that reads, "Hello, fellow Bitcoiners!"

Hello, eve ?

Hi TesterX,

We've received several orders already from customers using the coupon code, so it is functional.

Please note that the code only works if you use the email address with which you placed your original order, and that it only can be used once on single 2nd batch orders.

Don't hesitate to contact us at support (at) cointerra.com if the issue persists.

I'm really hoping the number of requests sent for a single company within such a short time span isn't the issue and they'll still get back to you guys.  If nobody hears anything within the next day or so I'm just going to post the information publicly and maybe THAT increase in volume will encourage them to act.

Thank you for the research and the laugh.

"Where's the beef?" Disappointing to see that there is *still* nothing substantive on that website; nothing to alleviate legitimate concerns that this may be just another, albeit glossier-than-most, scam. I'll pass. There will be plenty of cheap ASIC hardware to buy in the coming months.

It's so sad you don't understand engineer-speak.  To an engineer a shutdown or a halt means the line has ended and no more will ever be produced.  A delay is currently what is happening in engineer-speak, but that difference is lost on trolls.

Yep, you were spot on and assumed I was only talking about 1 company.  Epic fail dude.

see above highlight.  You assumed I meant BFL cause he mentioned BFL, but I responded to the other part of his quote.  I personally believe if you don't have it in hand between now and 7-14 days from now, you won't see a positive RoI on anything from anywhere just due to the simple fact there is so much product from so many companies that is supposed to ship in the next 30-45 days.  People will soon be wishing the monthly difficulty increase was ONLY 76%.

You are twisting my words again Master Shill... I did not reference any one particaular company, I meant ALL of them.  Tsk tsk tsk... we may have to revoke your shillness for this one.