No one has mentioned a group that really wants ASICs to hit the market for all algos, and that is the gamers. They have been bitching about the prices of GPUs going higher and higher because of miners.
I have been through it all, GPUs, Gridseed blades, Antminers, more GPUs, and on and on. My son, who is a gamer has been doing nothing but bitching about the high price of GPUs, so he is pro ASIC.
As I said before, it's clear that Bitmain can now produce an ASIC for any algo. No one is complaining about Baikal miners, why because they are not Bitmain. But yet they are multi-algo miners.
Just watch, if there is another algo with a high value coin attached to it, there will be an ASIC for it. Now you have FPGAs coming out that can mine any algo. What are the pro GPU people going to do then?
Well said. Whats funny is that GPU architecture design is only owned by 2 companies. There are literally more ASIC manufacturers designing chips then there are GPU. AMD and Nvidia own the entire GPU market by design. Similar to how Sony basically had all rights to the compact disc, when it was created. Hence the Sony stamp. Well intel a little bit with onboard cpu/gpu schematics. Think they are getting into GPU design as well. There will be no difference when asic go mainstream like GPU. It will just be the top couple companies selling schematics to 3rd party to build their own, just like AMD/Nvidia. There is literally no difference. How do i know this? Because this has been the entire evolution cycle of modern computing.