I have to second that. Two years ago at AmiWest, he was very clear that the discrete chips were for development purposes only. He felt that producing them for sale would be a losing proposition, as there just were not enough people with working mainboards but bad chips to make it worthwhile.
At that time he was hoping, not promising, but hoping to get the Clone-A into a joystick. And if the economics of it worked out, perhaps even having an SD slot in it.