9 months to production is completely impossible anyway.
9 months from design to early samples is probably impossible given than TSMC takes 3 months after tape out to produce them. Then it’s up to the customer to qualify and revise for production. TSMC doesn’t do that.
In the chip design world, 2:1 for design verification to design is on the low end of normal.
Some organizations have gone as low as 1:1 but that is considered an emergency that must be fixed. It’s so important that designers will be intentionally underworked if there are not enough validation engineers on staff.
When you can’t fix bugs in the field, quality is important.
My solution is that I no longer contribute to the public internet in any meaningful way. No more open source projects. No more contributions to free software. Bug reports only when it helps me. The hacker ethos is dead. Selfishness and greed won.
Silicon Valley builds empires off the back of free intellectual labor. I'm done with all of it. If they want something from me they can (and do) pay for it.
Amiga's were used for a lot of weird video things like touch-screen video kiosks. Genlock a serial controlled laser disc player to the Amiga and put it in a cabinet with a serial port touch screen.
A PC could certainly replace it by 2000 but if you developed your content in the mid-1980's then Amiga was probably your solution and you needed to keep it going for a while.