Labcoin doesn't get too much discussion on this board, but their first prototype run chips should be arriving "within a week".
UPDATE:
Just talked to Sam and while exact dates are still to be received from foundry/fabrication here are the latest news:
- The first run of chips are expected to arrive within a week. This is a
2500 chip run and Labcoin expects at least 2000 chips to be of "production quality".
- From these chips some will be send to DYI projects and parties that have expressed interest in volume orders from the coming serial production run.
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PCB/Components for miners are expected to arrive shortly (a few days) after chips. To speed up miner production the PCB has not been tested prior to order but thorough simulations have been ran and Labcoin does not expect any issues with the PCB. SHOULD a problem arise Labcoin expects less than 1 week until new PCB can be produced, so even a worst case scenario has functioning PCB in-hand in about 2 weeks.
- The first run of chips will be built into miners immediately and Labcoin expects to be live and hashing @ around
6TH within the next 3-4 weeks. - First serial production run will be ordered shortly after arrival of first-run chips and Labcoin expects serial production run of chips to arrive mid-late September (50TH+ for Labcoin mining operation and larger quantities of chips for DIY projects and mining operation customers).
- We will contact mining operations/DYI projects that have already gotten in touch with us shortly for addresses for sample chips. If you own a mining operation or similar company and wish to order chips from the first serial production run you can contact Labcoin at:
sam.noi@labcoin.com - I will post bulk pricing and chip order run sizes as I get the information from Sam.
These are 130nm chips, but it will be interesting to see what their bulk pricing is like compared to KnC/HashFast/Cointerra/etc.
If everything goes according to plan you'd actually be able to get chips/miners from them in September.
