There's no reason why a specially-designed Bitcoin mining board would need an SRAM chip; SRAM is large and slow and a Bitcoin miner needs fast access to a small amount of data. This wasn't even a competent scammer...
Which was why I was asking him what part did he used since I expected there would be at least two trip up. The first being unless there's some really super fast breakthrough Flash chip, it would be pretty much damning evidence regardless of his answer
