Considering that's not what they are doing, all you have done is shown your lack of comprehension of a relatively simple product announcement. I suggest you go and read it again, perhaps twice.

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3014-butterfly-labs-announces-bulk-chip-sales.html

The last couple of series of Macs have either had nVidia or Intel GPUs, both are useless for mining, so something like the erupters are a reasonable option. Same goes for PC and laptop users that don't have ATI video cards, Mac owners are in exactly the same boat.

This has nothing to do with BFL ASIC  Bulk Chip Sales by any stretch of the imagination, can you please move it to one of the KNC threads?

That's right, all the other photos and reviews were fake, just photoshop'd shots of borg cubes from Startrek.

So what are you suggesting that they have to redesign the chips as well and go though a series of prototypes, or are you completely oblivious as to why your 5GH/s units were delayed for so long?

If you have looked at the photos of the BFL wafers you will see that there is like 1,000 chips per wafer and they had 65 wafers left last week, BLF also mentioned they had already placed order for another batch of wafers. There are long lead times on these things. They obviously don't want to dig into the existing wafer stock to supply chip only sales.

Chips vary, they are graded into different bins depending on how many "engines" are working, ever wondered why there are so many Intel/AMD versions for each CPU? Not all make the designed target.

The main advantage of the BFL chips is a lower parts count and simplified board design, the boards you see in their 5GH/s units are designed to take 8 chips, and support components. If you designed one from scratch to take only 1 or 2 chips it would be far simpler.

I would like to see someone design a 10Gh/s unit. I feel the BFL 5GH/s  Jalapeno was fine for the time when it was announced a year ago, but the mining difficulty has gone up so much you really need 10Gh/s to get the same result.

They probably don't need to sell chips, no doubt they have been badgered to death about the Avalon chip sales.

It's good to see two chip sources on the horizon, even if neither have actually shipped any batches of them yet.

Have you sent back the FPGA singles?

Did he say what it was? Quite a bit of product went out Thursday and Friday according to BFL_Jody.

Did you get a shipping notice?

The troll ignores the money for the /R&D/wafers/plant/equipment just like it came out of thin air. Of course he hasn't considered profit from FPGA sales, investments, or the concept of mining for profit, he just assumes it must be ponzi even though it's pretty obvious from looking at the devices, that BFL make a nice gross profit on each sale.

The troll also would like us to believe that the production rate in April/May 2013 was the same as the 10mnths prior.

33C would feel cold to touch, hardly worth having a fan!

CoinWarz has been listing it all day without interruption the fault is with Coinchoose not Cryptsy. Coinchoose seem to stuff up listing of something every day or two that other sites don't have problems listing.

Yeah that's insignificant. I wouldn't want to see more than 1 per hour on a device like an ASIC or I would be asking the software dev for advice.

Grats.

If it were me I would have kept the FPGA too.

I put my order there, that's all I can testify to.

Yes

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Interesting to look at the pics of the KNCminer boards in this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=214285.0

A lot less parts count than the Avalon or BFL boards. I believe it's the  6 GH/s device called Mars.

Ah yes the fish that got away, 20/20 hindsite.  I could have had a lot of money too if what I spent over Xmas I put into buying BTC ready for the $266 price peak. Didn't need an ASIC for that one, just a crystal ball.