Any word on the MPW-ONE chips?

There is no word. :)

We had a bit of a delay caused by having to run an ECO on one of the metal masks. We got that pushed through the process and now they should be running the back-end.

Doh, I thought the chips would be on their way to being packaged by now, not still tweaking masks. Weren't assembled boards / package chips supposed to ship to the teams in like August ? That's very close to now.

The back-end processing should not take very long, but I feel that there must have been some schedule slippage. I am not aware of a revised ship date from SkyWater, but if/when we get one, we'll let everyone know.

Are you able to share any info on the ECO/ what went wrong?

@Dan Fritchman: Trying to keep the explanation short, but basically the Caravel work done in OpenLane was pushing the boundaries and some layout was just sort of hacked in. . . one of those hacks caused a couple of internal signals to fail to get routed, and the block was not re-verified through LVS (or possibly was, but there was also an issue at the time with a version of netgen that ignored disconnected ports). Fortunately we were able to connect the missing routes all on the metal2 layer only, and we found the issue before the metal masks were made (the masks are done in two sets, so the front-end masks had already been made and the wafers had been started on the front-end process). So there's less of a delay than you might expect, since the chips were already in manufacture, and we only needed to correct one mask. It took long enough to get the ECO through that there's probably some impact, but it's not like it was holding up the whole shuttle run.

Is it related at all to the reason why one of the raven chip was DoA ? or is that completely unrelated and still unknown ?

@tnt : Unrelated and still unknown.