Same thread moved over to ANN too...
Heard it all up to the January entries from Gerald Carda at CES. Saw the Mai suits there at CES, as well. When posted on this subject around that time the replies were not always polite. But I've got patience ; }
Some of you who got boards through Phoenix on the first run had to do some waiting. Mai was the reason for that. They had the money for some time but their delivery dates were not met.
When the very tough decision was made to forgo shipping product for a number of months and to instead go with Marvell and design PegII, I sympathized. Though I understood the financial situation that entailed I could not help but feel relief that I would no longer have to hear about Mai's slipping dates, their lackluster in-house "beta testing", and the underlying accountability issues they were loath to address.
Sure, inhouse design was probably considered. But as Neko says, that does not come without penalties.
