If they have a functional and competitive chip why not go with pre-orders like every other mining devices selling company, if they get enough money/orders they could make the chips.
Has this been discussed already?
No functional competitive chip--only [alleged] samples, unconfirmed by independent sources.
No production runs scheduled with foundry.
No management team.
No one foolish enough to preorder AM hardware in light of past history & recent catnapping.<==disregard, because Bitcoin.
I'm actually pretty convinced that they could raise funds this way. AM has never failed to deliver a device once chips were confirmed as functional. Pretty sure they could sell $10 million in hardware preorders for equipment for delivery in June if they had management team and could prove functionality of the chip. Production runs for 28nm grow on trees.