[Arm-netbook] eoma68 a20 card production

[Allan Mwenda]

On 6/21/19, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> (joshua appreciate you're busy with teardown, let's make this one short)
>
> Mike got back to me, his engineer completed the review of the BOM, and we
> managed to work out all of the information that had been lost by Mike's
> long standing manager quitting with no notice.
>
> The BOM still had components in it from the RTC, Ethernet and ONFI NAND,
> and we had had to change 10uF 0805 to a pair of 0603 4.7uF - all 12 or so
> of them - when there was that shortage caused by Apple, last year.
>
> All of this was *supposed* to be documented as part of the pre-production
> runs that cost USD 2500  a shot, so that the longer runs are far less risky
> because a short trial run is supposed to prepare the engineers for the
> longer one. We cannot keep doing that, it takes 2 to three months each
> time, so we have to take the risk and go straight to QTY 100.
>
> This is just how it is.
>
> Patience is required. Success happens by solving each unknown and
> unknowable issue that comes up.  However, it would be appreciated if people
> would accept that this is not something that cannot be predicted, neither
> what might happen next nor how long it will take.  Continuously asking
> "when is shipping going to happen" the answer is, always and will always
> be: until we have actual finished product ready to put into the hands of
> the shipping agents, we don't know and we can't know. It really is as
> simple as that.
>
> L.
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good to know, better a good product that's a bit late than a rushed dud.