Cablepair(Tom) has resurfaced on the BTCFPGA official website and in a total about face has announced "we WILL be shipping bASIC bitcoin mining devices in March 2013".

Things looked very grim for BTCFPGA  just over a week ago when a strange post from Tom about delivery dates was followed …

After a month of counting the days, hours, minutes and seconds the Avalon ASIC counter has finally hit zero.  The next question that I imagine everyone is asking though is "Are they actually shipping now?".  Well, I have no idea, all I know is that in the latest post on …

It has been an eventful few days in the bitcoin ASIC race and to be honest it would not surprise anyone if you where wondering where, when and even if bitcoin ASIC mining devices will start to make a dent on the bitcoin difficulty.

In order to attempt to clarify …

BFL_Josh has posted an update on the state of their ASIC's.  According to the article they are primed to ship in the week starting February the 10th.

According to Josh the most recent delay has been caused by changing the ASIC packaging from QFN to BGA, with the changing of …

[] From a post today on the official forums it seems that everything has come to an end for BTCFPGA, there will be no chips, no GH/s, no nothing.

In the latest news update form buzzdave the head of public relations at BTCFPGA it seems that the deal with the …

For those of you that don't mine or are non-technical in nature this wont mean much but in an announcement by BFL_Josh on their forum it seems that Butterfly Labs have worked on something in the background that will be of great interest to miners;-

"Today at CES 2013, Butterfly …

After a somewhat illegible post last night about the new delivery date of the bASIC line of bitcoin mining devices Tom admits that he was upset about the new March shipping date and had been drinking, he has now amended his post and goes on to say "I am not …

In a second announcement in a week BTCFPGA have updated their website, and apparently "Our relationship with our PCB Fab and Packagers has gauranteed us completed ASIC wafers with complete pckages - ready to be assmebled on PCB and shipped out in March 2013 at the very latest.[sic]"

They have …

In an update on BTCFPGA's support forum cablepair, forum administrator and BTCFPGA representative warns that Chinese New Year may cause issued affecting the shipment date of their new line of bASIC mining devices.

Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival is the largest of the traditional Chinese Holidays …

In an update on ASICMiner's chips posted on BitcoinTalk friedcat reports that "The samples passed all functionality tests. The power consumption is also within the expected range. And as our overclocking tests had shown, they still have a lot of potentials compared to our original spec. This means that the biggest risk of our project is gone and our NRE is a fruitful spend."