That's also the conclusion I've drawn over the last year. In their March 2010 briefing, Outlaw cited the introduction of HDMI 1.4 and 3D to the market as well as delays to Outlaw-specific changes to the common platform as the main reasons why they killed the deal with Inkel. But as consumers, we aren't privy to the whole business relationship between Outlaw and Inkel, there may be others reasons why Outlaw got out. Maybe it was a rash decision brought about by impatience over the longer than expected development cycle... who knows. However, I doubt that the release of Inkel developped 997 processor would have taken as long as restarting a whole new development cycle from scratch with a new Chinese contract partner.