Ok maybe you misunderstand... I am coming from a business point of view.

So these ASICs are actual custom chips that have to be created from schematics? In this digital age of computers and technology, you are saying that now other chip in the world can do similar operations as the chips Avalon and BFL have supposedly created from scratch?

It just seems there would be a much easier way to come up with a product besides creating the actual physical chip from scratch.

So the chip is the stumbling block then?