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BTCFPGA also claims to have a functioning chip at this time and Avalon must either have them or be very close if they expect to meet their countdown date.

I have a chip also. Called a gpu. Custom designed by my company. U might have heard of them. Ati. Yeaaa bitches and it is mining right now.

Sounds like a gpu to me, not an ASIC.

It's an ASIC for Graphics Processing.

One might argue that it's being used for a purpose outside of its Specified Application.

A processor of any type (CPU/GPU) is hardly an application specific chip. Processors are meant to handle data of different types and manipulate it in a multitude of ways.

I suppose you can make that argument though, because there really is no hard limit to what ICs are "Application Specific."