Bitcoinorama,
With all due respect, how can manufacturing incompetence of B#3 affect chip orders, except out of spite?
It is not like the chip orders are given prioroty over miners. If that were so, I would be in concurrence.
In fact batch #3 enourmous price was calculated on some estimated difficulty, once they ship chips first they will pump up the difficulty, screwing all batch #3 customers over, and will not fulfill the deal/agreement with customers