While details are still somewhat sketchy it seems that another 3 Avalon ASIC bitcoin miners have been delivered.

BitcoinTalk user libertybuck  posted the picture below in the Avalon Update thread showing his three new units being unpacked.  It finally seems that the disruptions caused to shipping by Chinese New Year …

core developer and Red Hat Linux software engineer Jeff Garzik has made a post on his blog, his Avalon ASIC has arrived!

Keeping good on their promise, Avalon shipped one of their first units express directly to Jeff for verification.  It seems Jeff is unpacking it right now, and taking …

Many of us have been watching the bitcoin network difficulty and hash power estimates since Avalon claimed that they were shipping over a week ago on the 18th and wondering when we will start to see the evidence of ASIC power effectively double the network difficulty.

In a bold move Avalon ASIC have put a countdown clock on the front page of their website ticking down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until they ship.

Using a bit of simple maths and a calendar that works out to be Monday the 21st of January 2013.