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by AtlasBarfed 1963 days ago
As cryptocurrencies pop up like flies, has ASIC design -> production started streamlining more?

It was my impression before BTC that ASICs weren't particularly frequent, since FPGAs existed for a lot of applications, but mining has the pressing need for absolute performance and tuning and iteration that it would accelerate that space.