BFL ASIC Sample Chips - Who wants them?

[dwdoc]

So I have an order placed with BFL that will get me two sample chips in the next couple of weeks confirmed by BFL. I am not sure which developers are looking to work on the PCB design for BFL but I'm willing to ship these to trusted developers who are going to be working on the design as soon as I get them. I'm not sure if a designer would need both chips, but if not I'd like at least one developer in the US to get one.

I'm not sure who is actually serious about developing this, so I'm leaving this to the consensus of regular board members as to who they should go to.

Cheers!

Don't hold your breath on sample chips from BFL.  I don't think anyone has gotten any yet.  I bought my chips from BFL on 6/11.

[dwdoc]

This just in from Josh:

Anthony is not longer with us, which is why the sample chips have languished. I just corrected this problem today and we have a new person on it... he should be getting the sample chips taken care of over the next couple days.


https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/3014-butterfly-labs-announces-bulk-chip-sales-31.html

[dwdoc]

I have sent my 2 sample chips to chris99 who is designing a board for BFL chips. I am interested in purchasing up to 6 additional BFL sample chips so the board designed to hold 8 chips can be fully tested.

[flowdab]

Just got info that my sample chips have been shipped. I still haven't made any decisions who they are going to. I ideally would like to send them to someone who has proof of ability to design boards for ASIC chips.

[dwdoc]

MrTeal seems like he is farthest along with board development but he has a bunch of sample chips already. That's why I sent mine to chris99 at BFL forum...

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/3831-board-bfl-chips-group-buy-chips.html

[YipYip]

Put them in the bin...lolz

AVALON has landed 400,000 chips delivered and counting

[Bigrah]

Put them in the bin...lolz

AVALON has landed 400,000 chips delivered and counting

Whats that "Uh oh Avalon is so cool i want a Baby from them" thing always?? Whats the matter with 400k Avalan chips now??  Yea they will be delivered and maybe in 4 month there are 20% of them hashing..  Everyone thinks that will be like buying a Radeon Card and he can use it in 2 days and no other costs..

By the way: 400k Avalon chips is like 25k BFL chips.. so thats not really that much...

[Loredo]

By the way: 400k Avalon chips is like 25k BFL chips.. so thats not really that much...

Except they do exist, sitting in boxes in Shenzen, last we knew.

But nobody seems to really know who they belong to, or what their productive purpose is, or how many times they might get hijacked before they are used.  But hell, this is bitcoin, and that would be way too much information.   

[k9quaint]

By the way: 400k Avalon chips is like 25k BFL chips.. so thats not really that much...

Except they do exist, sitting in boxes in Shenzen, last we knew.

But nobody seems to really know who they belong to, or what their productive purpose is, or how many times they might get hijacked before they are used.  But hell, this is bitcoin, and that would be way too much information.   

People who can read Chinese know.

[Loredo]

People who can read Chinese know.

No, with all due respect, I'm not sure that's even totally true.  It seems the story around those Shenzen chips has changed, and new characters have been added to the story, since the first translations last week.

Do me a favor.  When you feel certain that you know what's going on there, post it on one of the relevant threads.  I'll believe you.  While it remains first-translation, not so much.

EDIT: We are risking hi-jacking this thread.  End of this discussion here, and apologize to the OP.

[dwdoc]

Attention anyone with BFL sample chips:

PM me if you would like to sell them or donate them for testing a new board.

[dwdoc]

Chris99 in UK is offering to install BFL sample chips on a board if anyone is interested. 3-4 chips per board.  $600 per board is not cheap but could be a quick way to get a Little Single.

Also BFL will release up to 5 sample chips per 100 chips ordered if you email them (jonathon@butterflylabs.com).  You can send the chips to UK or if you prefer you can send them to me in Houston and I will forward them. 

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/3831-board-bfl-chips-group-buy-chips-10.html#post51223