Another 8000 Nubs To Go.

[w1ll14m]

Wow, I thought I was less cordial, guess I am just less often, glad to see your humanity come out.

It was said in jest. Seriously though, I have a knife.

That's a spoon.

There is no spoon.

 

[Monk]

Where's the quote from, please?

It's from his twitter account.

Ah! Many thanks. Yup, it looks fairly well related (I had a horrific vision that somethign was wrong with the first batch of 8000 nubs and this new order was for fixed nubs, not for a second batch of Pandoras!).

Though MWeston's tale of TI delays is even scarier - I hope that the SOC the Pandora uses doesn't have THAT bad a backlog when OP go to order them.

 

[aesir911]

Strange, I thought they'd want to mass produce these right away. If you average the total price to about $350 USD, and 4,000 sell... well, they have a whopping $1,400,000. Obviously they spent alot of that on producing, manufacturing, time, etc. So they end up with a much smaller profit. Perchance $400,000? Quite a bit of money, but no where close to how much they would get if they mass produced them (selling them to retail websites...and ebay).

 

[guizm]

Strange, I thought they'd want to mass produce these right away. If you average the total price to about $350 USD, and 4,000 sell... well, they have a whopping $1,400,000. Obviously they spent alot of that on producing, manufacturing, time, etc. So they end up with a much smaller profit. Perchance $400,000? Quite a bit of money, but no where close to how much they would get if they mass produced them (selling them to retail websites...and ebay).

Keep in mind that this has been years of hard work, and there are many people working in the project. I think i read time ago that from the 1st batch they weren't making any money for themselfs.

 

[craigix]

Strange, I thought they'd want to mass produce these right away. If you average the total price to about $350 USD, and 4,000 sell... well, they have a whopping $1,400,000. Obviously they spent alot of that on producing, manufacturing, time, etc. So they end up with a much smaller profit. Perchance $400,000? Quite a bit of money, but no where close to how much they would get if they mass produced them (selling them to retail websites...and ebay).

There is no profit at all right now, but we do gain the moulds, pcb design, accounts, credit, software etc. from it all.

 

[may88]

27 Weeks[sup]T'kin'M[/sup] Bah! These 2nd batchers don't know they're born.
I stumpt up my cash in advance, took a gamble, feed the scam . Now when was that??? Ah April. 27 Weeks ago and I'm still waiting and I've not been waiting as long as some of the other buggers. So just you count yourselves lucky. :angry:

edit: Corrected at least one typo

 

[EvilDragon]

It's not the nubs that have the long lead times. It is TI and their inability to meet their customer's demands right now. Go to their website and start looking up parts to see that most list a 20 week lead time. I've already had to abandon TI parts for another manufacturer on a smaller project because of this.

Yep, they are really having problems at the moment.

I ordered an Optoma Video Projector with a TI DLP chip inside. It had been delayed 2 months because TI couldn't deliver in time to Optoma...

 

[SiegfriedCroes]

28 weeks, that alot! Any chance of still getting one of the first batch?

 

[aesir911]

Strange, I thought they'd want to mass produce these right away. If you average the total price to about $350 USD, and 4,000 sell... well, they have a whopping $1,400,000. Obviously they spent alot of that on producing, manufacturing, time, etc. So they end up with a much smaller profit. Perchance $400,000? Quite a bit of money, but no where close to how much they would get if they mass produced them (selling them to retail websites...and ebay).

There is no profit at all right now, but we do gain the moulds, pcb design, accounts, credit, software etc. from it all.

NO PROFIT?!?!? Oh my goodness, that is one expensive device... I'd like to see China (or South Korea) put 1/5 that much funds into one of their devices...

 

[craigix]

Well, also consider there is no debt to any banks either, it's all self funded.

 

[j.pickens]

TI sounds like a victim of their own success.
The DLP product has dominated the market.
Their Arm processors are everywhere.

GET ON IT TI!

 

[Sphinxter]

Debt free as a way of life I highly recommend.

 

[WhiteBat]

question for Craig, how is the

cable shielding
mains power adapter
carry case
user manual

doing? :huh: