BTCFPGA bASICs "ready to ship"

[tacotime]

Order ID: 952
Date Ordered: 02/10/2012

Your order has been updated to the following status:
Ready To Ship

To view your order click on the link below:
http://www.btcfpga.com/index.php?route=account/order/info&order_id=952

The comments for your order are:

Hello, we are excited to let you know that your order and payment has been processed. Your shipping invoice has been printed and will be ready to go when your bASIC has been assembled and released from test.

Thank you for your business!

The BTCFPGA Team

Please reply to this email if you have any questions.

So we can infer:
1. Final ASICs have been cut out from the wafer and will be tested.
2. PCBs will be assembled soon after.

It looks like December will be the month of ASICs and BFL will fall flat on shipping before anyone else.

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[loshia]

For me sounds like
Order Processing Status
https://www.btcfpga.com/forum/index.php?topic=79.0
nothing more nothing less
Testing, debugging, bug fixing, bitstream develepmonet soon after......
ASIC's will be available next year - personal opinion

[tacotime]

I'm pretty sure this is the case, as cablepair announced he had working ASIC prototypes at the end of September.

But it seems everyone's forgotten about that after Inaba started running around the Custom Hardware board waving his penis in the air.

[crazyates]

I'm pretty sure this is the case, as cablepair announced he had working ASIC prototypes at the end of September.

But it seems everyone's forgotten about that after Inaba started running around the Custom Hardware board waving his penis in the air.

Don't act like you're not impressed!



But srsly, check this out, it basically means nothing:

https://www.btcfpga.com/forum/index.php?topic=79.0

What is this Ready To Ship email?
This basically means that this the order the ship team will see when they get ready to fill it - you should login and check to make sure you are seeing the counts and units you are expecting to see.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

For me sounds like
Order Processing Status
https://www.btcfpga.com/forum/index.php?topic=79.0
nothing more nothing less
Testing, debugging, bug fixing, bitstream develepmonet soon after......
ASIC's will be available next year - personal opinion

btcfpga and BFL both have a Dave doing PR? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6wV7rAKMNE

[2GOOD]

IMO the whole race for fist production ASICs is at the finish line, we just have to wait a little more

[punin]

For me sounds like
Order Processing Status
https://www.btcfpga.com/forum/index.php?topic=79.0
nothing more nothing less
Testing, debugging, bug fixing, bitstream develepmonet soon after......
ASIC's will be available next year - personal opinion

LOL @ bitstream development

[bobitza]

Go bASIc go! Oh, wait, Go BFL, go! Lol! I'm not in the first batch so whatever. Good luck to everybody and let's see those ASICs mining.

[loshia]

LOL @ bitstream development

What is so funny? Call it Firmware or whatever..but for sure some software development shall be done after the hardware production. Am i missing something here?

[psilan]

LOL @ bitstream development

What is so funny? Call it Firmware or whatever..but for sure some software development shall be done after the hardware production. Am i missing something here?

"develepmonet"  was pretty lol.

[Unacceptable]

LOL @ bitstream development

What is so funny? Call it Firmware or whatever..but for sure some software development shall be done after the hardware production. Am i missing something here?

"develepmonet"  was pretty lol.

That's french aint it,  It means making art,right 

[bcpokey]

I'm pretty sure this is the case, as cablepair announced he had working ASIC prototypes at the end of September.

But it seems everyone's forgotten about that after Inaba started running around the Custom Hardware board waving his penis in the air.

People probably forgot about it because it looks like nothing came of it. cablepair offered "raw" ASIC chips, which probably means they have not been coded to actually hash.

Contacting Cablepair and locking thread due to beginning of attempted thread hijack by the always childish BitcoinINV.  I will report on the bounty after delivery of items.

Topic is still listed as "Bounty Offered" from September. No posts by this user have referred to this again.


Referring to this topic, it's clear that payment processing and whatnot is all that is happening. Tom has not announced an actual timetable for completion and shipping, and as of a few days only said that things look like they "should be on time", meaning things are not finalized, and as with all things in life, are susceptible to unforeseen circumstances.

With that said, bAsic at least on paper sounds like it will be first out the door, time will tell.

[Rotsor]

People probably forgot about it because it looks like nothing came of it. cablepair offered "raw" ASIC chips, which probably means they have not been coded to actually hash.

Do you realise there is no such thing? ASICs must be "coded" before they can be produced. ASIC without the "code" is just a plain piece of silicon. Do you think that's what they offered?

[bcpokey]

People probably forgot about it because it looks like nothing came of it. cablepair offered "raw" ASIC chips, which probably means they have not been coded to actually hash.

Do you realise there is no such thing? ASICs must be "coded" before they can be produced. ASIC without the "code" is just a plain piece of silicon. Do you think that's what they offered?

Potentially, perhaps that is why no such deal was made? But I see your point, and retract that portion. I still foresee that it was a vapor-offer, as to why it was never finalized.

[buzzdave]

Having our orders Ready To Ship will save a lot of time for the ship team.  If we had waited until product was in the shop, sorting out all the orders, payments, free & paid upgrades, shipping upgrades and special customer requests would have brought our process to a standstill.  Mine and Tom's intention was to get everything staged as far as possible so we don't fall down at the goal line.
We'll have boxes & bubble wrap, shipping labels and everything ready so the units could literally be packaged while still warm.

Getting these bASICs out to customers on time will require a lot more than just having the product in hand...

[creativex]

Got an email about the status of my order. You guys are doing a great job of communicating dave. Keep up the good work.

[Morblias]

Having our orders Ready To Ship will save a lot of time for the ship team.  If we had waited until product was in the shop, sorting out all the orders, payments, free & paid upgrades, shipping upgrades and special customer requests would have brought our process to a standstill.  Mine and Tom's intention was to get everything staged as far as possible so we don't fall down at the goal line.
We'll have boxes & bubble wrap, shipping labels and everything ready so the units could literally be packaged while still warm.

Getting these bASICs out to customers on time will require a lot more than just having the product in hand...

How tempted are you to pop the bubbles in the bubble wrap?

[beekeeper]

Having our orders Ready To Ship will save a lot of time for the ship team.  If we had waited until product was in the shop, sorting out all the orders, payments, free & paid upgrades, shipping upgrades and special customer requests would have brought our process to a standstill.  Mine and Tom's intention was to get everything staged as far as possible so we don't fall down at the goal line.
We'll have boxes & bubble wrap, shipping labels and everything ready so the units could literally be packaged while still warm.

Getting these bASICs out to customers on time will require a lot more than just having the product in hand...

How tempted are you to pop the bubbles in the bubble wrap?

Haha, good one!

[ElectricMucus]

LOL @ bitstream development

What is so funny? Call it Firmware or whatever..but for sure some software development shall be done after the hardware production. Am i missing something here?

"develepmonet"  was pretty lol.

That's french aint it,  It means making art,right 

Cuz bitstreams make no sense in asics.

Unless you are talking about a FPGA prototype and a fpga conversion asic, which oh btw I have been telling people all along.

[Bogart]

Having our orders Ready To Ship will save a lot of time for the ship team.  If we had waited until product was in the shop, sorting out all the orders, payments, free & paid upgrades, shipping upgrades and special customer requests would have brought our process to a standstill.  Mine and Tom's intention was to get everything staged as far as possible so we don't fall down at the goal line.
We'll have boxes & bubble wrap, shipping labels and everything ready so the units could literally be packaged while still warm.

Getting these bASICs out to customers on time will require a lot more than just having the product in hand...

I hope you guys are prestaging a lot of other things too, like the stations that are going to be used to load the firmware and test the devices.  Be sure you have lots of USB cables, power cables, power supplies, power strips, etc on hand, with spares, and test the cables and power supplies and PCs etc beforehand.