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.
have to agree... I've seen chaps like that in big corp do the whiteboard fluffjob presentations to a mob of dumb managers just to get 6 month contracts and then shower them with all kinds of justifications why shit aint getting done until they just leave and hunt for the next contract
dazzle with bullshit
Cointerra's core competence is (exactly as you aptly described) giving "whiteboard fluffjob presentations" to "a mob of dumb managers."
They are heavy on Powerpoint and Excel sheets of rosy predictions based on wishful thinking and optimistic best-case ballpark estimates.
They are short on actual expertise with logical and physical architecture of original 28nm designs, as demonstrated by their inability to get the RTL done on time.
Cointerra customers and investors need to start asking
Where is the tape-out announcement and PR from OpenSilicon?
If the ~$5,000,000 for the NRE was not able to be collected, what is the plan for wind-down and refunds?Welcome to the "american" style of doing business. I have a feeling that labcoin did the same. A lot of talk, little real facts.