lol yes you are correct, I don't have any chips, hence why I said "hypothetically".
I was literally just curious as I know nothing about it.
Thanks for the replies though
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Ok in that case -- if you had chips you'd have to design a PCB and mount them. There are some open source designs for specific chips so you might start with that. But, you'll spend much more to get the PCB made and populated than if you were to just buy a miner. Miners either plug into the USB port of your computer or are standalone and have an ethernet connection to your router.
If you want a miner buy one of the little USB stick miners. You're going to lose money no matter what you buy, so you might as well lose the least.