We are indeed on track for our delivery times. Mock tape-out was performed and our tape out is very near. The community can expect more information soon as we get closer to production.
FWIW, hashfast claimed to have done their mock tape out well before august 20th:
https://hashfast.com/countdown-to-tapeout/2 months later they are still several weeks from shipping.
Ill take your claims of shipping in december with at least the same amount of salt I took with HF's october claims and KnC's september claims. Lets just hope we dont need butterfly quantities of salt.
There are quite a few factors that weight in to the time between mock-tape out and the tape-out itself. Depending on how much information you supply for the mock-tape out there does not have to be a significant time laps between mock tape-out, tape-out and production.
You can expect tape-out announcement soon and we are indeed still on time table for our production.