I think we can make this a bit clearer. As we wrote in our original announcement, the 997 is based upon the Newcastle 972 platform. They will not be launched simultaneously. (By the way, this is a slight advantage. Before we launched our 990, we isolated and identified certain minor bugs in the P-965 (Newcastle's sister product) software and were able to correct them for our introduction).
Therefore, please keep monitoring what happens at Newcastle, because nothing can happen with us before they have finalized all of their software and firmware.
Peter