Alpha Technology is still in tape-out - The company gets an overhaul
Alpha Technology was working towards shipping their Viper units by the end of July, but due to technical issues, they had to go through a second-tape-out process, thus delaying the shipments. They waited until July 28th to tell customers about this little surprise, distancing themselves from their claim of being transparent. Their news even went so far as to "remind" all of their customers that they upgraded their devices from 25MH/s to 250MH/s back in May. Even though PayPal did what PayPal does best, and locked Alpha Technology's funds, Alpha Technology was still able to fund the second....
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Alpha Technology has a new development update and its Viper scrypt board seems to be making headway. The British ASIC maker said it has completed the schematics for the ATX power distribution board and of the AC power metering board. Those of the actual ASIC board are not complete yet, but Alpha said it is "almost" done. In addition, the company has finalised the design of the enclosure and WebGUI user interface. ASIC tape-out initiated. Alpha said it is currently in the process of initiating tape-out at GlobalFoundries. The chip design has been finalised and sent to the foundry for....
Alpha Viper circuit board. Alpha Technology has confirmed that shipments of its Viper Scrypt miner will suffer delays of up to a month. The company had previously planned to ship the 'batch one' units in September, but now says the date has been moved to October. "We are confident that we will be shipping in the latter half of October 2014, provided everything goes as planned," director Mohammad Akram told CoinDesk, explaining: "We are doing our best to ensure our customers receive the highest quality of product, which is performing at, if not better the advertised hash rates and power....
Andrew Laurus contacted CoinDesk to say that, as of 21st December, he surrendered his shares in Alpha Technology Ltd and is no longer a shareholder, nor has any role or connection to the company. Manchester-based mining outfit Alpha Technology has missed its July delivery target, stating that technical problems and a dispute with PayPal have caused delays. Alpha Technology, which began taking pre-orders for its ASIC miners in January this year, now says it aims to deliver by September. "We may have perhaps overpromised," Alpha Technology's 23-year-old managing director Mohammed Akram wrote....
Alpha Technology has announced and opened pre-orders last November 2013 their first Batch of Scrypt Asics. Since then the company has been announcing that this first batch would be delivered until themiddle of 2014, early July. Many costumers have made their pre order along with payment and haven’t seen any equipment yet. Alpha Technology led customers to believe they were still shipping in July for weeks and there is still no proof whatsoever that the equipment is being produced. This has spread some discomfort to the majority of the investors and many are already demanding refunds. It....
KnCMiner says it has finalized the design of what should be the world's first 20nm bitcoin ASIC miner. The company is still not saying much about the upcoming ASIC or the rollout schedule, it merely states that the 'tape-out' was achieved only three months after starting the project. The actual tape-out happened sometime in February. In electronics, a tape-out is the last stage of the design cycle for an integrated circuit. KnCMiner teamed up with Alchip and Advanced Semiconductors Technology (AST) to design and produce the chip. The company points out that its first generation ASICs were....