How can I be so sure? I do believe I'm qualified to make that judgement.

Because one mining chip provides pitiful amounts of mining and a lot more consumes far too much power for a generic consumer device. Power consumption is a huge part of a consumer device. Many chips require ridiculous amounts of cooling and TVs and other consumer devices do not usually have any significant amount of cooling; a few heatsinks and maybe one small fan at most. The one chip pitiful amount is seriously not even worth a few satoshi of mining and there is no "generic way" to mine. All mining happens at pools and even at pools one chip won't provide enough to get a payout even once per year. Samsung isn't going to start running their own mining pools to allow people to earn dust amounts of mining that they can never actually redeem, nor will they waste effort and time developing their own chip for such a futile exercise. Samsung will happily press chips for other morons because that's what their chip foundry is designed to do. They don't care what crap designs they get given, they just have to press them at ever decreasing sizes for ever increasing costs to get their money.

Forget it, the equation doesn't work.

Btw, something interesting to discuss:

When I received my S11s, they were already configured to mine to SiaMining, and to this wallet:
25865daf640696361b432bd517b812270d8459af48f13876108354ee7e028e0e15c13ab5030c

You can actually look at the stats for that wallet:
https://siamining.com/addresses/25865daf640696361b432bd517b812270d8459af48f13876108354ee7e028e0e15c13ab5030c

Something I thought we might talk about is the peak hashrate.  The tallest I see on that chart is the 29th, which might have been when they were testing batch 1 units just prior to shipment.  That peak is 977TH.  If we conservatively estimate each S11 at about 3.4Th pool-side reported hashrate, that is roughly 287 units.  So, it would be reasonable to think that might have been what the Batch 1 size was - maybe closer to 250 since there are still units online and mining (most combined under the worker1 moniker).  There seems to be a steady baseline of about 70-80Th, so maybe they have 25 or so that are online all the time.  There's also some peaks around May 2nd and 3rd which could have been when they got back from the holiday and had to test/ship more of them.

Another interesting item of note is the all-time payout to that wallet at the bottom is 52,075,518.06 SC.  At today's SC price, that's about $1.4 million dollars worth of SC.  If they held all that and sold it today, it would account for only about 4% of today's SC transaction volume (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/siacoin/#markets)
So, it doesn't appear they have a warehouse full of these mining anywhere, unless it's being done to a different wallet.  I know it's a common assumption that these companies have hardware online for "months" before shipping to us, but it doesn't appear to be the case here.

Oh, and if anyone is following my posts, I mentioned that 1 of my 4 were not working, ends up it was the power supply, not the miner.  Thankful that's all it was, but it wasn't immediately apparent to me since the control board was working fine and I could access the interface and everything - it just kept restarting.  I guess the power supply wasn't providing enough juice to run the hash boards.  Support was responsive to all my emails during troubleshooting, no complaints there at all.

Best of luck to everyone else, I hope you get your units soon!

Hello thank you for your feedback. Could you please provide your order ID to me? We can check and push it.