I'll just quote this in the entirety for the posterity. I was actually expecting the visits and comments from the competing hustlers.
Anyway: everyone knows that the proof of the cook is in the pudding. Proof of the EE is in that his design doesn't suffer from the problems that are taught at the undergraduate levels. I don't have an easy way to dig through my textbooks, so I'll just cite what I remember off the top of my head:
Intel 8080 was from 1974 and required careful sequencing of power up to work properly and avoid damage.
Intel 8085 was from 1975 and was free of power sequencing requirements.
Zilog Z80 was from 1976 and was not only free from power sequencing requirements but had a patented way of powering up and resetting to enable special debug mode.
(From Wikipedia) In 1977 engineers at Hughes Aircraft invented general circuit for protecting CMOS IC's from latch-up.
I'm not in the mood for devising of the wall jokes, but this situation really calls for some satire.
How about:
Spondoolies: the honey badger of SHA-256 mining: it comes up correctly no matter in which order you plug in its subsystems.
Maybe someone has or can cheaply find an undergraduate digital logic design textbook from 1980 (or later) and send one for the benefit of the designers at BitMainTech?
Edit: Also, for somebody who's a native English speaker or a decent poet: can someone come up with a version of "Timex: takes on lickin' and keeps on tickin'". Something like "Spondoolies: takes on plugin' and keeps on hashin'".
I wouldn't be surprised if the engineering staff at that Chinese company doesn't have a real engineering degree but some sort of "work experience" degree after serving in one of those remote technical help call centers.
That was the dumbest thing I've heard in a while. Many of the
sales staff have post graduate electronics degrees.
It is very easy for me to pontificate here because I have all the experience required:
1) I helped many very non-technical artists help set up and maintain their "render farm" which is the finishing stage of ray tracing in computer animation.
2) I worked for many years in hardware design and I know how to recognize common hardware faults and properly fix them.
tldr something something computers in the 1990's so clearly know more than ASIC, electrical and software engineers combined. Could throw together an S7/SP50 killer in a weekend /s.