This thread shows people's greedy and selfish clearly.
How is it selfish to ask a vendor to hold up the terms of the deal that they themselves specified?
Do you really think Avalon team is holding back the chips?
Either through incompetence or malice, yes. It doesn't make any sense for TSMC to do small batches of chips. There is quite a bit of setup time that goes in to producing a run of ASIC chips, so it is in their best interest to produce as many as time allows after setting up all the equipment. So for them to only have 10,000 or 20,000 chips at once is very suspicious to me.
As I know the capacity of TSMC is very limited. Maybe the delay of chips are caused by TSMC or assembly factory.
How do you "know" this?