Black Arrow 28nm 100Ghash Bitcoin ASIC from $0.49/GH/s

[n00dles0up]

I've finally ordered myself an X-1 from Minersource on the 26th December and paid via wire transfer on the 27th December. The money has left my account and bank has told me it should be with minersource now. I have pm'd bob and hope my status changes from balance due to complete very soon as I want to be in the first batch. Anyone else know how long it takes for payment confirmation to occur, I am from UK if it helps.

It could take several days depending on whether or not all info on wire is correct,Bobsag3 workload,holidays...ect  You will be in the Mar/10 delivery time frame. There is only 1 "batch" of Minion asics at this time, just different delivery dates depending on when orders are placed. earlier orders being Feb/24 shipping,orders after Dec/12 are Mar/10 shipping date. 

Thanks for the info. I am very excited and cant wait. Wish I ordered sooner now, big difference in delivery. Only have myself to blame, if theres any way to get bumped up the list, let me know

fyi a ba reseller is coming to town, well, Fareham. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361692.msg4205864#msg4205864

I dont know if I should be happy or not about this. I waited as long as I could before buying but went with minersource. What to do now?

[nosferatujeff]

Black Arrow LTD:

Could we please have an engineering update on the progress of the Minion ASIC? Thank you for your time.

[Unacceptable]

Is BlackArrows site down for anyone else

http://www.blackarrowsoftware.com/store/

[Atomar]

Yup. Down for me to. Error: Registry: undefined cache level

[minternj]

Apparently its a shopping cart bug because of the new years.

[EricKennedy]

Indeed, an update would be more than welcome.

[Stedsm]

Yup. Down for me to. Error: Registry: undefined cache level

I can get to the Helpdesk and few tickets but thats it


Site is up again....

[BlackArrow Matt]

Will see if we can get an update for everyone soon.

[nosferatujeff]

Will see if we can get an update for everyone soon.

Thank you Matt.

[TinkerTom]

Will see if we can get an update for everyone soon.

That would be awesome Matt, thanks.

Any info you can supply about what the final configuration may look like for the X-3 would be appreciated. E.g., I believe it's going to be 2 modules, 3U height each (exact numbers seem to be 450mm x 180mm x 133mm). Hoping they can be mounted back to back in a rack...

Does each X-3 have a shared PSU/Controller or does each module have one, so each X-3 will have 2 total PSUs? Will each module have its own ethernet port, etc.

If each module is independent, that almost sounds like an X-2 product... the missing link.

Thanks!

[kaerf]

Has tape-out occurred already?

[zurg]

Working on my Reseller Account:

Work in Progress:
http://minermarket.net/
password:
draild

Payments will be through Bitpay and Wire.
Still need to determine Shipping stuff.

Thank you.

[Stedsm]

Black Arrow LTD:

Could we please have an engineering update on the progress of the Minion ASIC? Thank you for your time.

From BA:

" Dear Customers,

 

We have some updates:

 

The Minion:

We have our final specs for the Minion. Based on our library (we can only simulate the TT corner which is 0.85v @ 25C) and the power consumption is 0.6-0.65W/Ghash. We trust that underclocked and underpowered the Minion will achieve under 0.5W/ghash as promised.

 

This is not as good as our first simulations which were based only on Front End but this is where we need to stop. The time does not allow us to continue our effort towards seeking a lower power consumption.

We had to drop the frequency from 1.5Ghz to 1.0Ghz in order to achieve this efficiency. However we've increased the number of cores so the Minion will hash at the speed promised.

We had met all the timings for 1.5Ghz but the efficiency was 0.8W/Ghash and this is not something we could have accepted.

 

The minion driver:

We have also published the minion driver and we're happy to announce that it is steadily mining into cgminer. We've made the driver open source:

 

https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/driver-minion.c

 

Batch 1 closed:

We have closed batch 1. All orders paid in 2014 will be shipped around 1st of May. "

 

[reznor]

Will see if we can get an update for everyone soon.

Thank you Matt.

+1 Yes Matt please update us about the Prospero miners.

[TerraHasher]

1st of may for orders paid today? Wowza, i guess its time to look to the competition.

[loshia]

1st of may for orders paid today? Wowza, i guess its time to look to the competition.

There is no competition dude
What can be bought today will never make back in terms of BTC Roi, what can be bought tomorrow (mounts later) same shit

Quick and dirty calc may diff will be around 13,824,412,552
so even at $1.49/Ghash you are not breaking even
F...K

[TerraHasher]

1st of may for orders paid today? Wowza, i guess its time to look to the competition.

There is no competition dude
What can be bought today will never make back in terms of BTC Roi, what can be bought tomorrow (mounts later) same shit

Quick and dirty calc may diff will be around 13,824,412,552
so even at $1.49/Ghash yuo are not breaking even
F...K

Breaking even? since when has bitcoin been about instant profit? It took me 3 years for the hardware i bought back then to turn "profit" now. It will be no different now. BTmine, vision man, Antminer. all available now. Can all but make up the difference between ordering and getting now and waiting for the difficulty to increase a few dozen times between now and May. May not make a higher $ amount. but will make a ton more coin than waiting until May for machines.

[loshia]

1st of may for orders paid today? Wowza, i guess its time to look to the competition.

There is no competition dude
What can be bought today will never make back in terms of BTC Roi, what can be bought tomorrow (mounts later) same shit

Quick and dirty calc may diff will be around 13,824,412,552
so even at $1.49/Ghash yuo are not breaking even
F...K

Breaking even? since when has bitcoin been about instant profit? It took me 3 years for the hardware i bought back then to turn "profit" now. It will be no different now. BTmine, vision man, Antminer. all available now. Can all but make up the difference between ordering and getting now and waiting for the difficulty to increase a few dozen times between now and May. May not make a higher $ amount. but will make a ton more coin than waiting until May for machines.

Any way i am not arguing with you dude I have always said that making a deal should be profitable for both parties not just for one. I am not playing this game not anymore

Let me tell you that when asics were knocking at the door BTCASIC/AVALON batch1 times i spent 20K for FPGA's and it took me 5 mounths to make money. Now the point is how much i am going to loose if spent 20K for BTmine or Antminer. I guess at least 60%. On some time on it just not covering electricity you know that do you?

I am more to buy BTC for 20K Or to spent 20K for some charity apart of BTC world.

[Unacceptable]

1st of may for orders paid today? Wowza, i guess its time to look to the competition.

There is no competition dude
What can be bought today will never make back in terms of BTC Roi, what can be bought tomorrow (mounts later) same shit

Quick and dirty calc may diff will be around 13,824,412,552
so even at $1.49/Ghash you are not breaking even
F...K

LMAO.........94 PETAhash....REALLY!!!   

20-30 PETAhash is possible by may,if ALL companies ship EVERYTHING by then 

Where do they get these calculators

Nevermind....yes 94 PETAhash....DO NOT BUY ANY ASIC's FOLKS !!!!!!!!!!! 

Maybe even 500 PETAhash,be VERY afraid of buying ASIC's 

[kaerf]

shhhhhhhhh. diff is going to the mooon!