The obvious reason for those chips being missing is because they are being mined with. It's funny the way none of you FUDsters can come up with a logical argument against this.
It might be good to stop this "black and white" thinking.
There are several nuances between "Labcoin is not hashing at all" and "Labcoin mines on a large scale". They say they are at an experimental stage, they say they are hashing and optimizing and we also know they are not yet on a productional scale.
Edit:
I should add that the tray looks oddly 1 dimensional. Does anyone else notice this? It looks like it was painted onto the white table (or poorly photoshopped on)
There is acutally another picture:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=263445.msg3148724#msg3148724
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=263445.msg3148974#msg3148974