Lol those pictures are hilarious. The processors are sitting on top of resistors.
Check out this real FPGA photo - link below. See the metal leads for the I/O channels aligned around all sides of the spartan 6?. ASICs are the same. Now look at the pic in the first post again where they have 10 of them on the board.
WTF is that even supposed to mean? There are MANY MANY different package types that don't involve the pins being located around the perimeter. There's no such thing as an "ASIC package". They can be put in any suitable package, and the exterior packaging has absolutely NOTHING with the function of the chip itself.
Both QFN package type AND BGA type, which are what's being used by the major SHA256 ASIC designers right now, are mounted without any leads visible around the perimeter. Your post is completely full of fail.
There's PLENTY of evidence of a scam here. Package type is not among it.
It's fair to assume though that at every position on the board that an ASIC chip is placed that the immediate area surrounding the ASICS themselves should in fact be constant for each chip, correct?
Because on top of the fact the chips are blatantly photoshopped upon the board without the layers blended, the underlying PCB area has no routine regularity chip to chip.
So his statement stands in that the processors are in fact just cloned and pasted upon a random generic board containing diodes/resistors.
Yes, I agree that the board is inconsistent. Is it fair to assume that every single chip be laid out the same? Not necessarily. Not if the chips are daisy chained. Would I expect to see generally the same components dedicated to each chip, in GENERALLY the same area. Yes. So the lack of continuity is, in fact evidence of a fake.
What I reject is the idea that the lack of externally visible pin connectors on the PCB is evidence of ANYTHING.
His post is nothing more than static that just dilutes the other legitimate points about the board. I have said all along that I believe that this thing is a fake, but when people use false and inconsistent statements to support their point of view that it's fake, it waters down the message of WHY people should believe that it's a fake.
Anybody who knows ANYTHING (and I don't proclaim to know much) about ICs knows that mounting system and packaging has NOTHING to do with function. And that many chips are actually often offered in different containers/mounting configurations, while maintaining exactly the same function. Same chip, different package.
I'm not jumping on him for calling it a scam. I'm jumping on him for speaking about things of which he possesses zero working knowledge.