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Hey look what I found.

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We will have shipped all of the 65nm product before we begin shipping Monarch products.

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The Monarch should have standard Sandy Bridge Intel mount points, so you should be able to put aftermarket coolers on them.

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The goal is still to get through ~April orders by the end of September.

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"Are the other product lines being outsourced too (singles?)" - No, we are expanding manufacturing capacity for the other lines in house.

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BFL_Josh (Shoutbox) - Jalapeno's are being outsourced to another company for assembly and it is taking time to transfer the process.

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of chips arriving in KC by the end of the week.

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BFL_Josh (Shoutbox): Our next set of wafers arrived in California today for binning. There should be tons (...)

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"How many chips in Monarch?" - Two.

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"Per a facebook announcement, the backlog will clear before the Monarch ships, can you confirm?" - That's correct.

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"Is BFL going to allow merged orders to upgrade to a monarch?" - There are no plans to do that at this time.

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"Any plans to lower the prices of the current 65mm units in the future?" - No plans at the moment.

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BFL_Josh (Monarchs) aren't intended to be packed into a case like a graphics cards. We plan on a standard 2 card installation per 4U box.

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We will try to get them out as fast as we can, but we had a fair amount of orders almost immediately.

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BFL_Josh:If you haven't placed an order for a Monarch yet, I wouldn't count on one arriving at your door until late January at the earliest.

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"Do you expect an significant acceleration in singles SC by month end?" - Yes, once we are through the huge lump of orders in the beginning.

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company, so it's the same people with some new members.

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"Is it the same silicon design house that did the 65nm chip also doing the 28mn chip?" -- Sort of. There was a merger with another (...)

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250 or 500, I don't know off hand. We have people assembling 7 days a week.

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grnbrg to BFL_Josh (Shoutbox) - "Any comment on 200 or 400 units per day, and/or 24/7 assembly shifts?" - Several hundred, whether it's (..)