Quote from: bitstyles007 on March 12, 2014, 11:37:45 PM

Thanks Itod. I appreciate your input but that's not why I'm asking these questions. I want to know how these companies function. I know they assemble parts like he mentioned but that can't be all they are right? otherwise we'd all just buy parts and assemble. What is their contribution to advancing the ASIC card? How does that part work?

I think this might interest you:

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