Robert, Please post a quote from Technosystem for qty 1-10, 11-20, 21-50. It's hard for groups to project volume without knowing price brackets.
In keeping with the open philosophy of the platform I encourage everyone to use the wiki to communicate anticipated volume (Robert's link [2]). -Joe On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Robert Jördens <r...@m-labs.hk> wrote: > Dear all, > > [This e-mail goes to the ARTIQ mailing list and to everybody who I can > remember has indicated interest in purchasing Sinara hardware. Feel > free to pass it along.] > > as you may know we are nearing the availability of several pieces of > the Sinara [1] family and many groups want to start buying Sinara > hardware [2] to evaluate it and even more importantly to run > experiments with it. The prototypes of Urukul will enter smoke testing > in the next days and Kasli will follow shortly after that. > > Cost is a significant factor for many and we'd like to be able to give > numbers that are as low as possible. We need to know the batch size > accurately and early as possible as price goes down significantly with > batch size. We are not in a position where we can overestimate the > production batch size and stock significant numbers of these boards. > > Therefore, we'd like to know the **most likely number of boards you > will be purchasing in the next four months**. We are especially > interested in the numbers for: > > * Kasli > * Urukul > * Novo > * Zotino > > but to get a handle on the other boards as well would be helpful. See > the wiki [3] for an overview of what's in the pipeline. > > With that data we can produce a low and realistic price estimate. > > Please feel free to send me the data. I will collect and keep it, if you > prefer. > > Best regards, > Robert. > > [1] https://github.com/m-labs/sinara > [2] https://github.com/m-labs/sinara/wiki/Purchasing > [3] https://github.com/m-labs/sinara/wiki > > Robert Jördens. >
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