3) They feel they are far enough ahead of competitors that they can afford to "drain the pipeline of flash based products" and still come out ahead in memristor

3) They feel they are far enough ahead of competitors that they can afford to "drain the pipeline of flash based products" and still come out ahead in memristors ultimately. I agree a purposeful delay in order to try and squeeze some drops out of existing stock / sunk costs would be risky, and likely stupid. Clearly no corporation has ever made short-sighted, stupid decisions like that before so this would totally be a first :)