ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It

[minerpumpkin]

Anyone else seeing what appears to be Havelock locked up on AM trading ATT? Could be the whole exchange experiencing issues but it's so difficult to load on my end I can't tell.

No one panic. I believe it's a technical issue so don't jump to conclusions. I'm experiencing a problem with another site utilizing CloudFlare FWIW.

It has nothing to do with AM. There hasn't been an AM1 trade in hours. The site is lagging like hell currently, yes. But the only trading that has been halted is NEOBEE due to some 'irregular trading activity' (http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/21ml5z/havelock_investmentsneobee_fund_trading_halted/).

It's calm. Everyone's waiting for FC to release a statement. Make up your mind, decide how you think this statement will turn out (gen 3 works/flawed/failed) and position yourself accordingly. But don't necessarily expect an update before monday, the chips need to arrive at AM and also need to be tested first. This is no trading advice whatsoever, but the lack of an announcement right now is basically no sign at all - in my opinion. I wouldn't worry until, say, thursday.

[necro_nemesis]

Agreed. The problem appears to be technical as stated but it's gone from slow to full stop for trading presently. I'm trying to buy just to let you know where my concerns lie. 

[minerpumpkin]

Agreed. The problem appears to be technical as stated but it's gone from slow to full stop for trading presently. I'm trying to buy just to let you know where my concerns lie. 

So that wasn't you who just dropped 18 shares? ^^

[necro_nemesis]

Agreed. The problem appears to be technical as stated but it's gone from slow to full stop for trading presently. I'm trying to buy just to let you know where my concerns lie.  

So that wasn't you who just dropped 18 shares? ^^

No. I'm not in at market just strategic stuff for when emotional trading events like that occur.  

[friedcat]

Update

The chips passed the functionality tests.

[sngwinner]

First! Woot woot!

[aahzmundus]

Update

The chips passed the functionality tests.

Well, at least I know he did not get hit by a buss... any word on what you are doing with the dividend situation?

[silverfuture]

Update

The chips passed the functionality tests.

Thanks for the update!

[Zubilica]

Update

The chips passed the functionality tests.

Hooray , good news.

Can we have some data ?

[szmarco]

Can somebody explain what the functionality tests are?
And What's the next?

[minerpumpkin]

I'll just chime in and say: Yesss!

Forget about the divs. With those news I propose to donate last week's divs to FC and his team for a fun night out in... wherever they're located!

[Zubilica]

I'll just chime in and say: Yesss!

Forget about the divs. With those news I propose to donate last week's divs to FC and his team for a fun night out in... wherever they're located!

+1

[minerpumpkin]

Can somebody explain what the functionality tests are?
And What's the next?

1. You design the chips on a computer.
2. You simulate whether they will work, make changes if necessary!
3. Optimize as much as possible, repeat step 1, 2
4. When you're sure the chips will work, you tape-out, i.e. print a physical "mold" that is used to produce the chips. This is incredibly expensive.
5. You produce the circuitry of the chips on silicon. This is somewhat expensive - again, and takes about a month.
6. You package the silicon to actual chips. This takes a week.
- Until now you spend about 6 months or more and 5-7 figure amounts of US$ while you don't know if the chips you produced are going to work at all.
Now we know they do. *popsChampagne*

[szmarco]

Can somebody explain what the functionality tests are?
And What's the next?

1. You design the chips on a computer.
2. You simulate whether they will work, make changes if necessary!
3. Optimize as much as possible, repeat step 1, 2
4. When you're sure the chips will work, you tape-out, i.e. print a physical "mold" that is used to produce the chips. This is incredibly expensive.
5. You produce the circuitry of the chips on silicon. This is somewhat expensive - again, and takes about a month.
6. You package the silicon to actual chips. This takes a week.
- Until now you spend about 6 months or more and 5-7 figure amounts of US$ while you don't know if the chips you produced are going to work at all.
Now we know they do. *popsChampagne*

wow....thanks. That sounds great!

[friedcat]

Can somebody explain what the functionality tests are?
And What's the next?

They are a set of test cases to make sure that the chip indeed accepts the jobs and correctly outputs the corresponding nonces.

The next step is to make a better testing environment (powering, cooling) to know the maximum hashing speed on several voltage levels. (As well as at how low voltage the chip totally stops working and how at how high it explodes)

[chriswilmer]

Can somebody explain what the functionality tests are?
And What's the next?

They are a set of test cases to make sure that the chip indeed accepts the jobs and correctly outputs the corresponding nonces.

The next step is to make a better testing environment (powering, cooling) to know the maximum hashing speed on several voltage levels. (As well as at how low voltage the chip totally stops working and how at how high it explodes)

Congratulations! Must be a relief for you!

[ujka]

Congratulations!

Havelock must be under heavy load right now, can't even load the page to watch the happening.

[minerpumpkin]

Can somebody explain what the functionality tests are?
And What's the next?

They are a set of test cases to make sure that the chip indeed accepts the jobs and correctly outputs the corresponding nonces.

The next step is to make a better testing environment (powering, cooling) to know the maximum hashing speed on several voltage levels. (As well as at how low voltage the chip totally stops working and how at how high it explodes)

Will you actually be celebrating this success?  (Of course after those tests are done and you hopefully submit an order for a major batch at the fab)

[lan787]

Finally friedcat is online and answering questions 

[necro_nemesis]