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I guess this is the same "pipeline" again?

As Klaus already said, lenses are not designed, tested, released as a product and brought to market within a week. So if Sony anounces anything within the next weeks or months, then hell yes it has been in the pipeline for quite a while. Likely 2 years or more.

Apart from that: if you were able to take off that Sony fanboy cap for a while and tried to look at the facts as objectively as possible, you'd have to agree that the death of A-mount looks more likely than its survival (regardless of what you'd prefer to happen).

-- Markus