wallet miner asics work in progress yet?
a bounty pot bitcoiners/donors can donate to
The donation pot cannot collect couple of BTC for GPU development

ASIC development costs around $10-100MLN.
The worst thing is - even if you get an investor with 100 megabucks, the chinese will steal your tech and start flooding the market with cheap clones.
I guess, LBC (or it's clone projects) should go the BTC way - CPU-GPU-FPGA-ASIC... GPU is still immature, no FPGA. You want too much.
i guess its not about computation power anyways but IO. Dont have the means to test on a decent cluster - would love to do some benchmarking xD