Re: is butterfly labs mining with those ASICs at the moment?
No, we are waiting on our ASIC chips right now, as I've stated in a number of other places, though it's understandable if you have missed the posts, since they are spread out everywhere.
So basically for the bitcoin magazine post (here: http://bitcoinmagazine.net/butterfly-labs-releases-more-asic-photos/) you guys soldered some random QFN components to the board to you would have something to show....?
Inaba, please explain.
As someone already noticed, most likely.
The chip near the unsoldered ARM seems to be a DDR RAM chip, or maybe even SRAM, I would say they will try to mine LTC. But I'll also say it will work like crap if they will..
No offense, but that doesn't make any sense. A QFN package is a standard, as long as the pin count is the same the packages are [nearly] identical, even with varying functions and manufacturers. The only difference would be markings on the top of the case of the chip (which do seem to be missing).
That would be like me saying because you got an Amazon box in the mail is [it] must be a copy of The Avengers, because that's what came in my identical Amazon box.