Given how important mining is to the bitcoin ecosystem, how hard of a task it is to produce ASIC chips and how much discussion is being generated by each of them I think the community could only benefits from allowing company specific boards.
Requirements :
- Being requested by company owner
- Produce own chips
- Proven working devices
Benefits vs creating own website :
- Clean the parent /Custom hardware/ sub, making place for new development
- Benefits from bitcointalk's reputation system.
- Lower barrier of entry for customer support.
(not all business have the resources available to run a safe and functional forum)
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FriedCat ... 
