Sam Cole is full of shit, sorry. He claims it's impossible Maxwell reverse engineered Bitmain ASICs even though Bitmain has admitted themselves they have implemented asicboost into their miners and their pool even has software for it.
Is it not Bitmain that engineered ASICBoost? How does Bitmain using asicboost support your argument that Sam is full of shit with his claim that it would be extremely hard for Maxwell to reverse engineer ASICBoost?
English is not my first language maybe thats why I dont follow your quoted argument about reverse engineering. Please explain.