yeah it's probably fair to say a bunch of us just assumed an announcement after tapeout, but considering the value of friedcat's word tapeout will have occured mid feb and the next announcement sounds like it should be of more substance than just "tapeout completed"
FC
never mentioned any announcement after tape out:
UpdateThe updates of the chips can be found here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=438359.0...
The tapout date is pulled back to early Feburary due to further modifications for robustness and stability, but mass delivery date is still March.
So tapeout should be done by now. If any announcement to come, it would be regarding processing orders. He already gathered lots of pre-orders from the other thread, so he is just going to start taking payement for them... CCMFFFFFFF

edit: however, i wouldnt expect any announcement right now since he has a lot of business to do
