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You have arrived at a contradiction:
1. Cointerra is a month late with their tape-out
2. Cointerra has "the best team for designing Bitcoin mining hardware"
Both of these statements cannot be true; one excludes the other.
You need to check your premises because one of them is demonstrably false.
Hint: it's not Number One. 
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Those two statements are mutually exclusive. You can have the best design in the world, but not have to necessary funding to complete the tape-out.