OP, please post your Bitcoin OTC nick for verification.

NOOB ALERT: Do not send ANY money to any ASIC company at least until they can give a definitive proof on the fact that they have a working Bitcoin ASIC.

Until today (9th April 2013) only AVALON has proved they have the machines, shipping aprox. 300 of them to final customers. All the other players that appeared on the market have failed as per today, or they were just a plain SCAM from the beginning.

You have been warned.

Most important a proof of working ASIC's

there is many people out here who are  not native english speaker so i mean you can t blame them on such a small detail

but as i said you would be able to have even their grandpa or grandma name that won t give me their ability to deliver anything

so please be careful

As much as I want them to be for real and legit, I have to agree about holding off until a working prototype is manufactured and proven, As we stand today, There are too many people who have horded since bitcoin began, And now its worth something, They are quite happy to throw a few coins at anything that might increase their gain, Unfortunately, This make BTC much more desirable to scammers.

I am not claiming this is a scam, But in relation to what was thought to be en established company (BFL) has now taken a year (ONE WHOLE YEAR) and still were none the wiser, Please be careful with any new ventures, But give them the space to prove themselves also.

I just think that their time plan to be too optimistic

Take Avalon for example, from October to March delivery, that's 4 months for a working prototype and one month for production/test/delivery, and they have several favorite conditions: YiFu has previous contact with TSMC, and Dr. Zhang has a team of experts in ASIC design from his university. And most important, Dr. Zhang has been doing all the FPGA miner design since 2 years ago, so when they start to take pre-orders, the design part is more or less finalized (Final product deviate very little from their original claim)

For a new comer that barely know how bitcoin works, he need to grab all the source codes for various FPGA products and first try to make some working FPGA prototype, and then transfer this design into ASIC. A roughly estimation about this time frame is around 6 months, I don't see how could they speed up this process, unless they have already started this work since last year

Or at least some background details on the development so far.

good suggestion

kncminer maybe answer our questions?

I very much doubt they are anywhere near even designing their ASICs. Why wouldn't they provide at least ballpark figures otherwise?