My name and order quantity were edited to protect the innocent.

(Order number is real though)

Mod edit: Hello idiots who can not read: please note "order quantity were edited". This isn't a real order for $98k in product.

Which Avalon customer has the lowest number?

We can keep tabs on who's getting their tracking number first by asking the people with the lowest numbered order.

No, it depends on the carrier.
Priority international (To Australia) is a non-express option.

Express options cost quite a bit more. They usually fall into the multi-day category of shipping speed.

There are also critical services available for most carriers which will deliver the same day. Though these are prohibitively expensive. (like 200$ to 500$)

http://www.dhlsameday.com/
http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/shipping/same-day-delivery.html
http://www.fedex.com/us/sameday/

Do you work for BFL?

(It would explain alot of things!)

P.S. I do not work for Avalon, nor do I represent them.

Unlike the BFL contests where you make up a promo for a product that doesn't exist (yet), Avalon is probably inviting you to do your best at video and picture editing.

There should probably be a prize for who can do the best "I am mining Bitcoins!" video.

I would just love to see your faces as the <insert carrier here> offloads it from the truck and when you unpack it and then turn it on.

Would be a cool way to diss BFL. LOL....

By the way, serious question and all joking aside, does the Avalon Team need more time to fine tune things? Do you think you got a quality product out (no regrets or anything)?

Nah, we were just joking about the counter. (It never gets fixed!)

Nah, it will just go to zero and then negative. It's always done that in the past.

T Minus Ten Minutes.

All looks good for go.

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35mins to go....

Thats what I thought as well....

Data centers pay the wholesale rate at around 4.5 to 2.5 cents per KW/h.

@ Mods

Could you Ban MeSarah? I think the sentiment is clear that they provide nothing worth the electrons on the screen.

Or better yet, just Ban them for another 30 days. Make them wait for the next post!

The same thing as BFL and bASIC customers....wait.

At least their delays aren't all that long.

He's just worried.

They probably let him know something unfortunate when he got to the chip plant in Calfifornia.

Take a look at the BFL twitter feed. He said it was a long day. I wonder what that means. Typically you would hear him expunge himself of utter enthusiam for things going great.

I am guessing...something did not go well.

P.S. For the uneducated the packaging part of the process is where they also test and check the chips performance values.

Uh, no it doesn't.

See BFL @ CES 2013.

Change the word stick with Fact and you have a conversation worth holding.

BitSyncom stated that BFL would not be ready as claimed. They weren't. See the posting on BFL forums for that.

BitSyncom also stated that a production of ASIC is a known process governed by physics. It is a predictable process. Again Josh refutes this in his ignorance.

What happened in January? (30 days later)

They still didn't have the chips ready. Was this predictable based on the manifacturing cycle? Yes.

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Now Bitsyncom is providing more claims, that a package change cannot be done on "a whim". That it would require significant changes?

In all of your post you do not deny this. Here take a look at what you wrote:

Because he is in the same buisness as you. And knows enough about making ASIC (even if on a larger process) to know when you are pulling a bullshit stunt to buy "extra time".

Which is...coincidentally....the trend.


Josh levels the demand just days before having told his customers (paraphrased):

"It will be ready in another month. Just wait. Oh, and I have some goodies of more pictures for you to contend with."

LOL, in one breath he states the age of the process was developed and used in the world of technology, but gladfully omits that 90nm and 65nm was developed almost ten years ago.

Does that put things into perspective? Nah. Blowing more smoke.

Oh, and he finishes it off "professionally" with a "so enjoy the few weeks of glory you will have if you can manage to ship a working product that doesn't melt."

Which is coincidentally what happened to his plastic packaged BFL ASICs when they were checked in December. (keep in mind we are now in the later fringes of Mid-January)

You can't make this kind of comedy up!



Said by the guy who's chips melted....

(Ah, by the way, bASIC was going to release 1.4w per GH/s chips @ 90nm)

(BFL is now going to release up to 1.2w per GH/s chips @ 65nm)

Heh.

Inaba stood on his podium not long ago and told us all how he had basically designed the damn things, had made great achievements in ASICs. Now, not so true.

As I said back then and still do today, they paid someone else to do all the hard work. They just basically pointed out the specs sheet and discussed the main bullet points as far as I am concerned.

Poor guy didn't even know when the ASICs were coming out of the Fabbing Oven.

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Just now, on the BFL forums he went to fly somewhere to find out in person how the whole thing is going. You could say he was just a glorified phone call/email assistant and an attendant at the door coordinating the incoming boxes of new parts.

Sorry to make it sound harsh, but that is how I see it.

P.S. I very highly doubt BFL_Jody was talking about BFL_Josh as the engineer who didn't call her with an update. She meant the "real engineers". You know, the people who are actually making it. (IMO and "Speculation")

That irony is a shared affair, apparently. I thought exactly the same.

I think I would expect a massive wave of refunds at BFL if Avalon falters just the same.

2 of 3 failures*  is a pretty bad sign in any sane mind. It would probably be enough to scare people into pulling their cash out immediately.

(Not including ASICMINER which is probably a success)

Alright, I will bite.

What links do you have to solidly support the idea that Avalon purchases 1000+ ASIC devices (or otherwise) from Tom?

Strangely I thought Hitler typically offended alot of people, not just the Jewish people.

I guess that means you don't find Hitler offensive?