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Re: Re: Butterfly Labs CEO 25 Million USD Mail Fraud — A Concise Summary of Evidence
by
makomk
on 22/09/2012, 16:30:35 UTC
Franky may not know the difference between an FPGA, an ASIC, and a structured ASIC. But you are making the situation even worse. A blanket "this is ridiculous" or "this is beyond absurd" is not a response. Either do some PR or STFU.

I'm not sure Inaba does either to be honest:

Ok, lets deconstruct this a minute.  BFL has stated that our chip is a custom ASIC, end of story.  That's what it is.  bASIC is a Cell Based ASIC, which is another name for a sASIC for all intents and purposes.  So we have a parity there; we've both stated what our chip is.

Cell based ASICs are not "another name for a sASIC"; they're basically what most non-technical people would think of as a "fully custom" ASIC. Very few modern digital ASICs are actually full custom designs because they're so much more expensive to design and don't give that much performance improvement.