ESP32 Timeline

[Charles]

Hello,

I'm really looking forward to using this chip in a product and I was wondering if there is an estimated timeline to market.

Also I heard the beta boards are hard to solder by hand which is the bottle neck in the process, would it be possible to make a kit where it's just the components as well as the board and users could solder the smt components by hand?

Thanks you for your time,
-Charles

[johnlee]

it's under consideration. we are doing SMT, but it's still not at the level that we would like it to be. Hardware takes a while to iron out the wrinkles... thanks.