2013-09-15 Coindesk speaks to Josh Zerlan of Butterfly Labs

[willphase]

http://www.coindesk.com/butterfly-labs-coo-responds-to-detractors-amid-company-struggles/

Zerlan stated that there are several months to go before “we see the actual chips in hand” because the 28nm chips are still on the tape-out process but revealed that BFL are set to do what he described as a “bullet run”, which will produce a limited number of chips in 24 days (versus the normal 75-90 days required for a typical foundry run). This will not only enable Butterfly Labs to verify that the chips are working as expected but would also allow a small volume of customer orders to be shipped sooner than initially anticipated.

“The bulk run of chips should take place a few weeks after the bullet run, which is where many of the later orders will come from. That is expected to start shipping sometime in late January or early February 2014. As I get more information, I intend to keep everyone updated as much as possible,” Zerlan told CoinDesk.

counting back from mid-February, a 75-90 day 'normal run' will mean that it would start around end of November.  If this date is a 'few weeks after the bullet run' then the bullet run should expect to produce a few chips in early November, with the tape-out for the bullet run being 24 days before this, so around mid-October.

This does align with the timescales given by BFL before.  Those with very early Monarch orders should expect to get their product by mid-November.

Let the flaming begin.

Will

[LiteCoinGuy]

all people will get their miners, just wait for the year 2016    (sry)

[dave111223]

I guess Monarch pre-order numbers have been less than impressive (not enough suckers left) and now they doing the media rounds and schmoozing forum members in order to drum up some more pre-order money.

If BFL truly intended to mass produce Monarchs they would not give 2 shits about pre-orders, because as soon as they start shipping actually units, and have a "For Sale in stock now" sign up they would be sold out immediately.  Instead they seem to be obsessed with milking all the pre-order bling that they can.

[Puppet]

"bullet run" ?
Never heard of that term.
Seems like Josh still hasnt even caught up with the vocabulary of this industry, its called a hot lot.

[Chronikka]

ughhhh this reeks of more BFL BS. The handful of people who get a "bullet run" 28nm miner will come on these forums and rave about how great the chip is. Then everybody else will flock to order from BFL and a year later we will all be screaming at them again because they aren't delivering.

This is exactly what they did with their early fpga's and asics...they made a small number of initial miners that worked well and distributed them. Then they collected everybody's pre-order money and have been laughing at us ever since