We are not in a position to build up thousands of boards and let them just sit on our shelves. So, we rely on our distributors to tells us how many to ship and when. We work our production around that information. Everyone was caught off guard with the sudden burst of "demand"
Gerald On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:12 AM, rh_ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 08:30:37 -0600 > Charles Steinkuehler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Wow! Well congratulations to beagleboard.org! > > A nice problem to have but maybe nicer to have a production line that > scaled. (^: > > > > > I knew you were building these in pretty good volume, so I was > > surprised to see everyone out of stock at the same time. Sounds like > > someone must have wanted a *LOT* of boards. Perhaps the guy with the > > red hat, or maybe someone figured out how to use the GPU to do > > bitcoin mining? :) > > I wonder if it is a single buyer, I doubt it though. As for bitcoin mining, > the ASIC miners rule right now. GPU and FPGA mining became obsolete. > Potentially bitcoin is vulnerable right now due to high cost of mining. > i.e. limited to fewer entities > ...now if you have access to free electricity and free money to buy ASIC > hardware.... > i.e. you can print money > > > > > On 12/18/2013 7:48 AM, Gerald Coley wrote: > > > Someone or a bunch of someones, came in and bought up everything > > > out there. We are shipping 3,000 boards a week. As you can see, > > > there still is not stock. You might try Newark, I saw they may have > > > some stock, but can't say how accurate that is. > > > > > > And yes, all our distributors reported a big uptick in demand. > > > Unfortunately they did not plan for such an event. There is no > > > history to fall back on so planning is hard to do. > > > > > > Gerald > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Charles Steinkuehler < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> I went to order a couple more BeagleBone Blacks, but I can't seem > > >> to find any! Lots of folks show them expected back in stock > > >> sometime in January, but I couldn't find any to actually buy. > > >> > > >> Does anyone know of a US supplier with actual stock? > > >> > > >> Did the BBB somehow become the "hot" must-have Christmas toy and I > > >> didn't notice? :) > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Charles Steinkuehler > > >> [email protected] > > >> > > >> -- > > >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > > >> --- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > >> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > > >> send an email to beagleboard+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF > > >> +G/[email protected] For more options, visit > > >> https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > Charles Steinkuehler > > [email protected] > > > > -- > > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop > > receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard > > [email protected]. For > > more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
