We will know soon enough. What is this connection you speak of? Considering they have sold hardware, I don't find it hard to believe the vaultbreakers are real. This is the problem we have trying to figure this out, we have people spouting so called knowledge and intuition when they have only known about gaw for a couple of weeks, I bought my furies months ago and if I can get my current rma issue resolved, I might risk buying one or 2 more.
When Vaultbreaker was announced it was assumed it's based on the same chips as Flower Tech, for a couple of reasons: CEO had mentioned Flower as one of companies he was talking to, and specs seemed to match. Flower recently announced that they failed to produce their miner and postponed delivery until February. GAW insists they will still deliver on time, i.e. end of Q3 / beginning of Q4.
If I can find some links I'll post them here.
This is interesting, BUT allow me to play devils advocate for a moment. There are plenty of chip design/fab companies the world over that we have never heard of. If I was attempting to create a groundbreaking product for something like crypto mining I would be in contact with multiple design firms at the same time, the first one to give me a working prototype that met the specs I had laid out gets the contract. Its possible that because flower couldn't get there chips done in time he went with another company.