Innosilicon doesn't seem inclined to go into the farming business.
There is still hope!
Not picking on you, but the key word and operative phrase in your statement is "seems".
There is no evidence to indicate that Innosilicon is or is not operating a farm.
Innosilicon has in the past manufactured complete miners and I imagine there is some "burn in" testing on those machines.
How long is that "burn in"?
A day, a week, a month, . . . .
And even if it's only a day at Innosilicon, when their customer (who intends to re-sell them) gets the machines, how long do they "burn in" test them before selling them as "new".
Based on TRS's info, I queried Innosilicon on the availability of 14nm hash chips which per their post alluded to indicate they had taped out a production run.
Their response indicated:
1) they had taped out a test chip run (unspecified quantity),
2) they were unwilling to sell 100-1,000 chips (test or otherwise),
3) they were soliciting "large" pre-ordrers, and
4) were interested in designing/building/supplying a custom complete miner.
Needless to say, PlanetCrypto as a company isn't interested in pre-buying vaporware chips (due to time/value of money calcs where the time parameter may approach infinity) and the belief (which has a basis in fact) that Gekkoscience would design and produce a superior hash board.
Added to this, if we purchase hash boards from GS versus a company in the Pacific Rim our shipping costs are significantly curtailed, interfacing with American customs is obviated, and GS has a history of supporting what they sell.
So bottom line, if/when Innosilicon has 14nm chips for sale, we would consider buying a small quantity (100 or less), forwarding them or drop shipping them to GS
if they were interested in designing a hash board which they may or may not decide to put into production for general sales to the community.
If the GS hash board using the Innosilicon chip is a profitable unit, we would then purchase a "large" quantity of chips and contract with GS to be our vendor of choice board supplier.
Till such time as all that comes to fruition, our focus is to continue plodding forward with a community designed and owned 14nm hash chip.
