Yep, you are right, that'd be a jump of above 200%, not 400%. Anyhow, a 200% jump from 150M might too be quite a problem for some people.

I agree its completely unrealistic, but those are the numbers they claimed to be able to ship daily.

True I just think it won't be that high for a couple reasons.  Then again if it is then KNC customers are screwed either way.   If they need to ship that much and can't customers are screwed by late shipments.  If they need to ship that much and can then difficulty explodes so high (even assuming nobody else ships anything) that the returns are crushed.

The good news is I think KNC pre-order amount is probably lower.  The round about reason is KNC die size is probably large.  The fact that they are the only company not to release die size information, the large package size, and the high (on a relative basis) power consumption makes me think the die is 400mm2 to 600mm2.  That means less chips per wafer and KNC is a well run enough company they would put the first order in once they hit the batch size (usually 50 wafers) rather than wait (and take longer to get chips).

Edit: I just realized I wrote 500 above, I was thinking 1,000 per day. 

What are you talking about?

Back in June, on the 11th, KnC said they had 890 preorders.
https://www.kncminer.com/news?page=3

There is a list of known preorders here:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/249065.0

If I count the numberpreorders on that list up to june 11th, I get 95 jupiters and 47 Saturns. That means ~16% of all preorders were on that list

The total number of preorders for batch one on that list is 146 Jupiters and 68 Saturns. If the same % of customers posted in that thread as for earlier orders, that would mean KnC actually got 6.2x more, or
589 Jupiters and 291 Saturns.

589x400GH + 291x200 = 293TH

Substantial, but no were near enough to quadruple difficulty.

I think you're still off by a factor of 1000 there.  1000 units = ~500 TH/s, no?

"Some guy" was dead wrong.
Large operations have substantially lower initial costs -- from gear quantity discounts to industrial electrical rates.
These savings could be further augmented with curiosities like mining bonds, mining futures & other amusing financial instruments designed to part idiots & their coin.

Get ready, wear makeup.

Edit:  please understand that KNC is not the only company dumping hashrate onto the network.  The difficulty has been climbing quite nicely without a single KNC product hashing.  BFL seems to be churning, ASICminer & Avalon are still with us, and we have no idea how much Bitfury will put out, other than  GHash.IO Pool Speed:5m: 217.44 Th/s15m: 214.38 Th/s1h: 214.62 Th/s1d: 204.93 Th/s.  And then there's the rest of the latecomers.

I'm sorry guys & gals, but this time Xallia & Crumbs are right.

When I ordered, It was for September DELIVERY, not September shipping.

Call it what you will... Fact is...   Come Monday... If the miners are not delivered... The miners are late.

wasn't there something about being in the first "1-500" list or something like that.

I actually bought someone elses order to get into this "1-500" list.  remember the reselling "1-500" fiasco... What was all that about???