Official ASICMiner Update by the Board
7. Research & Development
We had tried several different really intricate and speculative designs for 2014, based on the assumption being competitive in a fully saturated market (average return rate getting close to normal business' single digits per year). but originally with a limited channel/staff, it can be very difficult to fully explore them. So, we conducted interviews, and recently identified several exceptional people.
We will be spreading design risk by working on several designs simultaneously and having all other designs' info/simulation results fed back to the main design process. Our designs changed aggressively and the expected successful rate (on a working mask) drops compared to the standard flow so it has to be fully (wave-level) simulated before fabrication.
you see, for 2014 it means, the new gen which will be out before end of this year is the same hardware that will compete in 2014.
so as you read, they are working hard and its not fab-ed yet, becuase there is no announcement for it.
it could be out on december fully assembled, i doubt in novemeber, properly fab done around mid-late november