Hashfast,

You are NOT ahead of schedule if you or your suppliers f*d up by two weeks. That's BS. Nobody cares if a mini-stage of your project is "ahead' of others if the end outcome is late.
The bottom-line is that you/your suppliers screwed by almost 2 difficulty jumps or 3 weeks from the lower-bound shipping target (October 20th). That's going to break the ROI for many of us.

Thanks for the update and looking forward to next steps.