Job postings from the Cointerra site today (11/5/13):
Hiring lead physical design engineer
Hiring principal design engineer
Hiring principal verification engineer
Cointerra could you please comment on how this plays into your tape out schedule? This is your only official news posting on the site in the last 20 days...
these guys (like I said from first whiff) are just a bunch of contracting power point whiteboarding apes that live off of soaking up 6 month budget cycles
There are TONS of brilliant speaking non-producing professionals squawking daily in conference rooms across the world
Enjoy their vaporware
This is the most likely scenario. It doesn't make any sense that an organization would sandbag a successful tape out and hire some more people to do a R2 chip. This reeks of ineptitude.