Looks like the L3 is going to be what the A4 was supposed to be... A game changer. This miner could force the retirement of the Titan's and even the A4's. Of course the devil is in the details.
Will it crash the ltc price?
Won't have ANY significant effect on the PRICE of LTC (or any other Scrypt coin).
Hashrate has shown *ZERO* impact on price historically.
If they ship enough of them, it WILL hammer LTC/Scrypt coin PROFITABILITY (which is a WHOLE DIFFERENT story).
It is PROFITABILITY that sometimes drives hashrate down when the profitability drops enough.
I have to wonder if Innosilicon caught a rumor of this thing in the wind and that's why they started having "sales" on the A4 so soon?
On the other hand, while this thing appears to be quite a bit more efficient than the A4, I also have to wonder what the RELIABILITY is going to be like - the history of issues with the S7 and S9 do NOT fill me with confidence.