It seems that this whole community has been bitten by poor performance from so called ASIC suppliers.  I does make me pause to consider if I want to get into this but the potential is intriguing.  We certainly know how to build ASICs and assemble them onto boards and manufacture them.  We are also hooked up with a number of Contract Manufacturers (CMs) who could manufacture in volume and then build and ship to order.

So I'm going to look into this further and see what happens! 

Our trial place and route is nearly done so will post the results shortly!