The point is the low energy consumption. GPUs will not be used in some months because of their high wattage and then we need to be there with our low-energy-boards. Although I'm a bit pessimistic right now because somebody could have non-free very easily pluggable asic system right then and straight away fill a server farm with thousands of these boards.

Would "our" modular system capable of taking asic boards if available? there was a thread right there about someone "founding asics for the community" but i guess this was a troll or got selfish or busy or whatever http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14910.80

The future of bitcoin is asic i believe. asic or death