It is in fact the case that they're shipping; I've had one arrive in the mail. My first impression (from just looking at it and not powering it on yet ...) is

It is in fact the case that they're shipping; I've had one arrive in the mail. My first impression (from just looking at it and not powering it on yet ...) is that the board feels like what Raspberry Pi should have been. The Z7020 is a pretty serious chunk of FPGA. I'm not convinced that I believe that their ASIC is any more powerful than the big chunk of programmable logic that's sitting right next to it, though I suppose that for some DSP-like applications, there could be a pretty clear win. On the other hand, I supported it because I like the idea of a crowd-funded tapeout, and wanted mostly just to help prove that that would be a successful strategy. It's not clear to me that I'll ever have time to actually power one on, let alone do much playing with it... Has anyone written any code for it yet? How would you describe the experience of programming for it?