Please describe the ASIC design process in detail and the associated costs? I would like to learn how you can burn through several million dollars in a few months.
Oh that's quite simple: Just ask them BFL Cowboys how they did it.
- always blindly trust your subcontractors
- do no Project Management at all
- waste money on (unnecessary) bullet runs
- go mass production (50.000 chips), then do a prototype, then figure out your design is borked, then redesign, ...
- make tons of boxes with fans, that you can all throw away because your devices need much bigger casings (because of heat issues)
- and the list goes on and on ... Seriously dude, just ask BFL how to get from one big fail to the next big fail. And the next. And the next ...
Just this alone should deter any new customer from ordering with BFL.
Obviously they have no common sense when it comes to designing, prototyping, testing anything.
1. Build a ton of shit you think you will need.
2. Find out you dont need it anymore because your product is too fucking big.
3. Repeat 1 & 2.
So funny because Josh even eluded/hinted that they had a prototype in November of 2012 that was going to get FCC stamp of approval etc.
And to this day only < 40 Jally's shipped.
More delays, excuses.
I just noticed that if you look at my history of postings from January you will see that it was BLATANTLY obvious that BFL could not and would not be shipping anywhere near their estimates.