i don't know anything about mikrotik's hardware development practices and don't want to besmirch them, but some places basically just fab reference designs, or

i don't know anything about mikrotik's hardware development practices and don't want to besmirch them, but some places basically just fab reference designs, or smoosh a couple of reference designs together, and have a product. it helps to keep costs down if you don't have any NRE.