Quote from: Puppet on October 14, 2013, 06:10:39 PM

yeah because designing a bitcoin asic is so complex, asic design neophytes like friedcat and bitfury could pull it off. Heck even BFL did it, eventually.

Seriously, you're being ridiculous. Nothing guarantees CT will deliver on time and on spec, but their credentials most certainly isnt an argument against them.

Not all Bitcoin ASICs are the same.

You can't compare friedcat's first gen ASIC and bitfury's second gen ASIC to HashFast's 3rd gen ASIC.

28nm is nothing like the larger feature sizes, 1 billion transistors pumping out 400GH/s is nothing like tiny previous designs.

Cointerra's credentials are most certainly an argument against them.

Their expertise is throwing the IP Samsung licensed from ARM onto a SOC. Low power, low gate activity ratio SOCs, not huge hot high-performance 3rd gen Bitcoin ASICs.

Worst of all, and most damning to Cointerra's reputation, is that they intentionally misrepresented their limited expertise as expert level guru wisdom.

Nobody made Cointerra say they were going to tape out first week of Oct. They said that to get your money, and you believed them.

Every hour that passes beyond their self-imposed deadline is another blow to their already limited credibility.