I'm pretty sure about this. Just look at the New dual miner from Sfard
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=985400.0They are 1.7th + 47 mhash scrypt at 900w + at the wall.
Bitmain confirms that S7 is scheduled for July + I got my info from a very reliable source testing a lot of hardware from different producers here on Bitcointalk….
In 1 month time Avalon is obsolete if price dosent come down big time.
You can't reason with Avalon - they are just immune to that arguments... It seams they are, like many other hardware manufacturers not really keen to do retail business.
Roughly one year ago I tried to get a reasonable quote for a hundred miners, still no chance to get them below Bitmain price.
It would be nice to have a competitor to Bitmain...
The way Bitmain shells out new hardware I assume Avalon doesn't even want to attempt to keep up in the retail space.
I'm with you though, it sure would be nice to have a few options / competitors to Bitmain. With Spondoolies and seemingly Rockminer dropping off retail, Sfards too expensive/unreleased, and Avalon too expensive its a Bitmain monopoly! lol