"Avalon" ASIC, announcement & pre-order. pre-order over. project started.

[irritant]

any news?


edit: 

"The Avalon ASIC will outperform, dollar for dollar, the leading competitor by 20Gh/s."
not true anymore  

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/content.php/117-Announcement-BFL-ASIC-Release-specifications

also, the power consumption is pretty low, can Avalon beat that?

I can't resist

Only time will tell.....

yes i know, i was actually asking because of the second wave of pre-orders ... supposed to be this weekend?

[luffy]

All ASICs will have similar power specs, like FPGAs

[Unacceptable]

We'll know in 4-6 weeks 

(get it?? sarcasm  )

[crazyates]

All ASICs will have similar power specs, like FPGAs

That's not quite true. Most FPGA miners had similar performance and/or power usage because they all used the same chip, the Spartan-6 XC6LSLX150. The BFL Single used a different chip, IIRC, which is why it could get upwards of 450MH/s per chip, but at a higher power usage, and more heat.

Every manufacturer could potentially be using a different ASIC design, so they are not going to be as standarized, and performance and/or power consumption could be all over the board, way more than the FPGA world.

[cedivad]

any news?


edit: 

"The Avalon ASIC will outperform, dollar for dollar, the leading competitor by 20Gh/s."
not true anymore  

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/content.php/117-Announcement-BFL-ASIC-Release-specifications

also, the power consumption is pretty low, can Avalon beat that?

I can't resist

Only time will tell.....

I don't belive a word out of BFL anymore.
Not even a single word.

Toooooo many coincidences.

[SolarSilver]

"The Avalon ASIC will outperform, dollar for dollar, the leading competitor by 20Gh/s."
not true anymore  

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/content.php/117-Announcement-BFL-ASIC-Release-specifications

also, the power consumption is pretty low, can Avalon beat that?

And don't forget another one bumps it's speed: the bASIC SHA256 Bitcoin Mining Device - BitcoinASIC.com https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79637.msg1229735#msg1229735

[Carlton Banks]

"The Avalon ASIC will outperform, dollar for dollar, the leading competitor by 20Gh/s."
not true anymore  

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/content.php/117-Announcement-BFL-ASIC-Release-specifications

also, the power consumption is pretty low, can Avalon beat that?

And don't forget another one bumps it's speed: the bASIC SHA256 Bitcoin Mining Device - BitcoinASIC.com https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79637.msg1229735#msg1229735

Well, it's not actually faster in absolute terms (pre-release absolute terms), but it's definitely got a higher GH/s/$ than Avalon, either at pre-order $1299 or at full price $1999. There would have to be something seriously wrong with the way that the bASIC unit was delivering it's rated 54 Gh/s to make the Avalon's 60 GH/s worth $1999.

[cedivad]

Dear *@*,
My name is Yifu Guo, head of Operations here at Avalon ASIC. I would first like to apologize for the events that transpired at our launch. It was our mistake to underestimate the sheer demand for the product. This has caused us some issues that needed to be addressed. I believe "life is an ever-lasting self improvement." and from this mistake we will learn.
The possibility of an unforeseen occurrence was within expectations however, time is an important factor and limitation for this project. We scheduled plenty of leeway and with that said, no delay has occurred from this mishap, meanwhile Ngzhang is focusing on the hardware related tasks he excel at. In addition, transparency and open-source is also big factors in not just this project, but as our personal beliefs. I'll be providing information and internal logistics to you as they become available to better understand the big picture. As always, do not hesitate to contact me if your question is not answered below.
the Story so far...

The Avalon ASIC preorder launched at EDT 00:00 on the 23rd of September. The pre-order site exploded in activity and it was not long until we ran into some technical difficulties. To ameliorate the situation, we acted fast and pulled 100 orders out of the web shop to be re-released in another later date to give those who were locked out of the site another chance as well as those who simply missed the launch day. There will be another email detailing the exact time of this second wave of 100 units at least 24 hours before the event.
Why only 300 units?

It is not always selling more products and about profit. When it comes to ASICs, I believe having a solid time-line is crucial. To be frank, as a small start-up, we simply do not have the capabilities to handle large amount of orders at this time. Especially not to over-promise and under-deliver. I will however go on record and say we will have all of the 300 units shipped before the end of February, 2013. I hope you can understand our reasoning and again, we apologize in advance to those who are not able to submit an order.

I ordered, What now?

Those who managed to make it into the first-wave. If you chosen bitcoin as your payment method and have yet to receive an email, confirming or requesting to confirm your payment please contact me immediately. I’ll be manually checking over the orders to make sure everything is spot on before moving on to those who chosen wire transfer, sit tight we'll get to you.

 
Thank you for taking an interest in Avalon ASIC,
you’ll hear from us again and soon.

[ngzhang]

 

yeah, Yifu just sent the news letter above. i hope everyone will understand our attitude.

thanks again.

[Bogart]

Dear *@*,
My name is Yifu Guo...

Those who managed to make it into the first-wave. If you chosen bitcoin as your payment method and have yet to receive an email, confirming or requesting to confirm your payment please contact me immediately. I’ll be manually checking over the orders to make sure everything is spot on before moving on to those who chosen wire transfer, sit tight we'll get to you.

I also received this email.

Having placed an order, I only ever received an email confirming my shipping details, product ordered, and payment method (bitcoin).  I paid to the bitcoin address shown on the website, but never received an email confirming payment.

Now when I try to reply to the email, my email bounces:

This is the Postfix program at host ********.*********.com.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the message returned below.

         The Postfix program

<info@avalon-asic.com>: Name service error for avalon-asic.com: Host found but
    no data record of requested type



Reporting-MTA: dns; *******.*********.com
Arrival-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:12:04 -0400 (EDT)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; info@avalon-asic.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Name service error for avalon-asic.com: Host found
    but no data record of requested type

I'm not sure why the error.  I am able to send emails to other hosts using this mail server, and the dns records for avalon-asic.com appear to be in order.

Has anyone else encountered this error when trying to email info@avalon-asic.com?

[ngzhang]

Dear *@*,
My name is Yifu Guo...

Those who managed to make it into the first-wave. If you chosen bitcoin as your payment method and have yet to receive an email, confirming or requesting to confirm your payment please contact me immediately. I’ll be manually checking over the orders to make sure everything is spot on before moving on to those who chosen wire transfer, sit tight we'll get to you.

I also received this email.

Having placed an order, I only ever received an email confirming my shipping details, product ordered, and payment method (bitcoin).  I paid to the bitcoin address shown on the website, but never received an email confirming payment.

Now when I try to reply to the email, my email bounces:

This is the Postfix program at host ********.*********.com.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the message returned below.

         The Postfix program

<info@avalon-asic.com>: Name service error for avalon-asic.com: Host found but
    no data record of requested type



Reporting-MTA: dns; *******.*********.com
Arrival-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:12:04 -0400 (EDT)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; info@avalon-asic.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Name service error for avalon-asic.com: Host found
    but no data record of requested type

I'm not sure why the error.  I am able to send emails to other hosts using this mail server, and the dns records for avalon-asic.com appear to be in order.

Has anyone else encountered this error when trying to email info@avalon-asic.com?

PM  sent

[spiccioli]

PM  sent

Ngzhang,

I've got a mail from you before your site went online confirming my order (before site went online orders were sent directly to you) but now I did not get the email with the address where to pay nor an answer from Yifu Guo whom I sent an email a few days ago asking for a confirmation of my order.

I'm send you a PM with my real name, can you confirm me my order status?

Thanks.

spiccioli

[fuxianhui888]

ｗｈｅｎ　ｗｉｌｌ　ｔｈｅ　ｎｅｘｔ　ｗａｖｅ　ｂｅ?ｎｏｔ　ｔｈｅ　ｌａｓｔ　ｗｅｅｋｅｎｄ?

[spiccioli]

ｗｈｅｎ　ｗｉｌｌ　ｔｈｅ　ｎｅｘｔ　ｗａｖｅ　ｂｅ?ｎｏｔ　ｔｈｅ　ｌａｓｔ　ｗｅｅｋｅｎｄ?

Please,

not during a weekend, I'm often away from a PC during weekends.

This whole thing is becoming a raffle

spiccioli

[Xfinity]

Mmm, still no email how to pay... How long before we can pay for our orders?

[Isokivi]

My favorite meme is: shutupandtakemymoney.jpg

[cedivad]

Again,

I'll keep this one short, the time for the second wave for Avalon order has been decided as follows. The website will launch the second wave of orders at 9:00am EDT, 10/03/2012. Good luck and thank you for purchasing Avalon ASIC.

[Dhomochevsky]

Where did you quote that from? I didn't receive any announcement through the newsletter, as promised.

[mtbitcoin]

Where did you quote that from? I didn't receive any announcement through the newsletter, as promised.

From the newsletters. It might have been filtered to your spam inbox.

[irritant]

I also haven't received the newsletter..