Chips weren't ordered because there was no money to pay for the order. Attempts at securing necessary funds failed. So the order was never placed due to the lack of funds.
Canary, I have always found you to be an honest person. So I put some weight in what you say. That said...
Have you seen any actual proof that the wafer order was not made, or is this all hearsay?
And if you saw no proof, is it not plausible that you were misinformed, whether that was malicious or not?
Edited to add. The last we were all told IIRC, was that there was enough btc / money available to keep us going even with a depressed btc price for quite some time.
Well I think Jutarul - who is a board member also said something along those lines. I think a couple of pages ago he revealed what the board actually knows and it doesn't look too good.