lmftfy:
"The process to bring a brand new ASIC to life is not as simple as turning it on. The fact that some people BFL thinks it is, is an indicator that they have never actually done so. There is a lot of testing, poking, prodding and debugging that needs to happen to get a chip up and running and if someone BFL tells you differently, they are incorrect, plain and simple."
BFL Update 03-25-2013
And this is exactly the explanation why BFL is so bloody late (and will possibly never have a working product): They are just some
cowboys that managed to get the funding done (venture capital, pre order money), outsourced everything and naively took the best case scenarios from their subcontractors for their estimates.
I love that quote. Yes, Josh, designing an ASIC is hard. We knew that, which is exactly why we kept laughing at your utopian time estimates. The ones that absolutely clearly spelled out "we have no idea what we are doing."