I doubt that this is true. Can you point me to where you heard that?
Still more of a rumor, but I would not be surprised ... FPGA and ASIC development will be much quicker in the future, if anything the only thing keeping ASICs away from ETHhash is Vitalk's threat to switch to PoS
https://twitter.com/ZcashMiner/status/815512912546541568yes, I agree... something to think about