I don't believe they've ever said they'd have chips available immediately. That would be some kind of time travel. What I believe they've said in the past is t

I don't believe they've ever said they'd have chips available immediately. That would be some kind of time travel. What I believe they've said in the past is they'll have cores available for licencing immediately, and indeed the "VIU75" with "Vector Intelligence" was announced last week. Customers will be able to sign contracts now, and get preliminary near-1.0 RTL to use in FPGAs for testing and software development. By the time the customers are ready to tape-out in six or twelve months the final spec-compliant RTL would be available.