I am sorry–your email did slip through the cracks. This is not an excuse, but unluckily your email came right during a bunch of big launch events.
So this is our fault.
In regards to the chip themselves, we don’t have the ability to sell the FE310 as standalone parts, but we can work with you to provide some samples. Please look for an email from me shortly.
Bruce, Supporting bare chip sales involves a lot more than fabbing more wafers and shipping the packaged parts. Those’re the easy parts. A lot more needs to be done in qualification and production testing to ensure quality across all supported use cases when shipping bare chips in volume. Chips on known boards are easier to test as operating environment is highly constrained. We are working to support bare chip sales in due course, but some things take time to get right. Meanwhile, we are supporting a few board developers as Jack mentions, but are obviously bandwidth constrained.