Asicminer should make their 4th generation before others and make 14 nm chips to beat the competition

A hard task but doable.
They could - but securing funding at this stage is almost impossible. I talk to money pretty regularly, and money keeps saying - "No effing way."
I still find it so hard to believe they are short on cash.
Either there was a massive amount of theft or embezzlement, or the most inept company on the planet.
If they just would have been honest with investors from the beginning, this thing would have gone down totally different. They had a fanbase of customers and investors that would have made magical things happen. They didn't have faith in their customers or investors - and starved everyone out.
Why would anyone want to invest that cash into AM though? They are much better off just buying the chip design and not being stuck with all the negatives. Also it sounds like AM is just a nickname for FriedCat since they can not do anything without him...let a lone sell the IP. Unless FriedCat ends his vacation early nothing is going to happen at all.