BFL ASIC Shipment Plan

[BitMinerN8]

Here comes November! 

Friday, August 31st, 2012

BitForce SC production is still on schedule for shipping in late October or early November.

Many BitForce Singles shipping out next week.

http://www.butterflylabs.com/production-update/

[ice_chill]

As I understand, it's because they want to accumulate a large amount and ship it all at once, so the distribution timing is more fair.

[BFL_Josh]

Let me explain a bit about why our shipping of product is going to be totally different moving into the ASIC arena.

Right now, we have to rely on outside vendors for many of the parts that go into an FPGA single.  Couple that with the fact that the FPGA single is a complicated piece of machinery and the manufacture and assembly of an FPGA single is very labor intensive.

With the ASICs we are moving the manufacture of a large portion of it in house.  This will cut our supply chain issues down dramatically and allow us to build product as required to fulfill orders... we've invested quite a lot of money in building up our manufacturing and assembly facilities so that we aren't in the position we are in now and forced to rely on the timetables of other companies for some components.  Strangely, the biggest trouble we have is getting the most common stuff on time (fans, heatsinks, etc...).  Then there is the fact that the MiniRig and the Singles use different components, so we have to acquire and keep stock for both types.  With the ASIC generation, all of that will be shared between the units, so it cuts our supply issues in half and allows us to keep more stock.

tl;dr : We have made many changes for the ASIC generation that will make our production, assembly and shipping times measured in days, not weeks.

[beekeeper]

Hm, quite a cryptic post...
What exactly can you do in-house except assembling? Maybe bonding and packaging, but this will be a bit crazy..
Also, do you already have the chips in your hands for fixing final design and testing? ASICMINERs seems to move pretty fast and they dont need to ship a product.

[BFL_Josh]

We have a full pick and place machine in the works as well.

[beekeeper]

We have a full pick and place machine in the works as well.

Ah, interesting..

[macsga]

Three questions for you BFL:
 
1.The $1,333.00 should be paid prior to shipment? I'm trying to place an order but for some reason the procedure won't continue (trying via Paypal).

2. I'm living in Greece. Will there be extra cost?

2. Is it certain that the BitForce Single 'SC' has a constant 40GH/s performance?

Thanks in advance for your answer(s).

[peasant]

GH/s per $ is what i care about, and what really matters. Also shipping speed. At the current low standards 2weeks or less to ship out is reasonable. Whoever meets those requirements is getting my money. So i really hope measured in days isn't a dream. Good luck to everyone.

[boonies4u]

GH/s per $ is what i care about, and what really matters. Also shipping speed. At the current low standards 2weeks or less to ship out is reasonable. Whoever meets those requirements is getting my money. So i really hope measured in days isn't a dream. Good luck to everyone.

The jalepeno is supposed to be USB powered. Dunno if that helps any.

[peasant]

It's a novelty item with the worst GH/s per $ that BFL will offer. I would still buy one  since winter is approaching and it's cheap enough, but most of my money will be spent on mid and high range miners. I just hope more competition starts. I like options, and BFL has a lot to prove still.

[The-Real-Link]

  Thanks for the updates there.  Good to know things are on schedule.

[solareclipse64236]

"Kind of" on schedule.... first they said beginning of October, now it is late of.

[WhitePhantom]

"Kind of" on schedule.... first they said beginning of October, now it is late of.

I don't recall seeing the word "beginning" anywhere, but I could be mistaken.

[freeAgent]

"Kind of" on schedule.... first they said beginning of October, now it is late of.

I don't recall seeing the word "beginning" anywhere, but I could be mistaken.

I also don't remember seeing any claim about shipping in the beginning of October.

[The-Real-Link]

Never seen beginning of October as any given timeframe from day one.  Always been late October.  As such, I'm fine if it also meant beginning of November.  Past that, and I'll be patient to the level of accordingness to my place in the order queue

[Monkey1]

I do hope they ship in late Oct!  As an international customer I really want to get my hands on these before Xmas!

[mrb]

I do hope they ship in late Oct!  As an international customer I really want to get my hands on these before Xmas!

Christmas is such an arbitrary deadline... I want mine before November!

[solareclipse64236]

What about Jalapenos? You keep talking about singles and mini rigs but not Jalapenos?

Will those come out faster?

[freeAgent]

What about Jalapenos? You keep talking about singles and mini rigs but not Jalapenos?

Will those come out faster?

BFL has said that units of all types will come out at about the same time.

[BFL_Josh]

By Christmas I hope to have all current pre-orders shipped, not just the first batch!