jeff,
I guess I'd be shocked, too.
We have just finished early access, and are in the process of changing to general ES.
To define a few terms, early access is defined as a program where we decide exactly how many customers we are going to support, and directly support them.
To be part of early access, you need to get you FAE to request a part on your behalf, and it has to be accepted.
That part of the program generally favors the "big guys", although, we do have smaller businesses that we enagage with.
The general ES program is just that, order entry is opened, and all orders are scheduled through the "normal channels", which means that you are no longer dealing directly with Xilinx, but are working through a distributor.
Peter, and my, view of the world is a world with parts, reports of shipments, crawl charts showing dollars shipped of Virtex 5, and scehdules and plans.
That may be far different from your view, as you are just one request, among who knows how many, for general ES parts.
I apologize in advance, as I have no way to know, and no way to change what happens with the general ES Virtex 5 shipments. Yes, we have LX50,
30, 85, and 110 die, and yes, they are yielding, now. But that may have no bearing on your individual order.
We have been criticized, and properly so, for our sins and omissions of the past. If anything, Xilinx does listen, and does place procedures which are intended to prevent the kinds of problems we may have had in the past. You may at least take some pride for your calling things to our attention, as we do listen, and we do recognize that anything that we can do better at, we should do better at.
I would encourage you to email Peter, and let him know what you are requesting, and through whom. Whatever pull he has, he will be an advocate for you.
The truth is that we are rolling out V5, with a great deal more process and procedure in place to prevent the kinds of issues we have been accused of in the past. Some things will always remain outside of our control, but anything over which we do have control, we will do even better to fufill our promises.
Austin