No, they were the 1st USB stick miners for BTC. The were put together by Friedcat using ASIC's made by Canaan who created the 1st BTC ASIC chips in 2013. Those 1st chips were used in much larger miners like today's are.
Ah okay. So that's how it was. I wasn't sure anymore because it was quite a long time ago. In any case, thanks for the correction. They were first in something, I just wasn't sure in what. 