I think you read this:

well, thanks to some questioning last month we worked out a way to increase (negotiate) power up to 10W, and i am working on a proposal / concept to get an 8-core 64-bit RISC-V SoC produced.

And, didn't read this thread: RK3288 PCB first prototype assembled.

I hate to add, because it seems Luke was sufficiently crass, but I'd like to explain why it was justified and appropriate, even if it comes off as insult to injury, it is only meant to explain so truly harmful stress can be avoided in the future.

When you are communicating on this mailing-list, you are not contacting customer support and you are not engaging with a corporation, a corporate entity, or any type of public relations entity.

When/If you backed this project you did not back any person or organization. We are the organization, you included even if you are the metaphorical equivalent to a lazy employee just like I am [at least, I admit it]. By messaging on this mailing-list, you are not messaging to this organization, but-rather as a part of it, because this is an internal communication channel where we [this organization] are collaborating the planning and design of our thing.

Luke, being the one whom holds the funds we have gathered to build our things, is simply a very pro-active member of this organization that has existed long before this campaign has, whom has become a trusted agent of this organization with the sole purpose of performing our grande finale in this epic. Once that role is complete Luke will ultimately return to being like the rest of us until the certification mark is registered, that is to say hopefully if it is successfully registered.

We owe a lot to Luke, being the still unconventional and still unfortunately somewhat amorphous segment of the Linux community dedicated to hardware that we are, [and, that is the only definition for organization I will provide here] Luke certainly seems on the path to fulfilling such prerequisites as would complete the mandate of such temporal authority, and perhaps deserving it, as only history can tell.

This organization will still exist even after this grande finale which now should seem as ever impending as it ever has been, and as such it is only natural that we talk about the hereafter of this whole project. Luke, making mention of a proposal to build a RISC-V SoC was not supposed as recommendation for this project as even a "Lazy Employee" such as yourself [please excuse the metaphor] can obviously see that wouldn't work.

There are still many more epics to be written after this one, and, with the temporal authority supposed to be placed in Luke's hands shortly hereafter [re-read that until you get the pun and can laugh, because you won't understand the sentence until you get the pun; it happens with the word suppose], I can trust that it will be a great one with great OpenCores.

Yes, Luke must be accountable being trusted with these funds that the fellow is, but this type of questioning now is an insult because we are supposed to be doing this for ourselves. Luke's deadline is soon, but we, being that we are doing this project for ourselves, have no deadline especially being that the sooner we rush this the less work and the more likely to fail we are. The deadline here is partly on us to help Luke build these boards the best we can remotely, and, if Luke were to fail to create a board soon after we develop a promising prototype, then we question Luke and hold accountable thereof. That very clearly hasn't happened and, in fact, the opposite has very clearly happened and, if Luke, in celebration of completing part of the trust we had in him, sings song of the next epic we shall write and you question it in this way that you have, you are not only insulting Luke severely, you are identifying yourself very opaquely as the colloquial "Lazy Employee".

Please pay attention.