KnC's inability to tell a consistent story was one of the reasons I happily chose to not to business with them. They've clearly stated both before and after product production that it was a structured asic run, and their power results support it. Ultimately it doesn't matter if they used crackerjack boxes to make their masks, at the end what matters is the specs and they're a mixed story. I mean, sure, feel free to not care.  But a 2x increase in operating cost, and thermal load is not "a few watts", especially for those of us not interested in a high risk gamble involving mining for a few months and then throwing the hardware out.

even in a datacenter— Three antminer S1 are is faster than a KNC jupiter, and I believe they take up less space (if not less, it's close— I don't have the dimensions of the KNC handy). yea, sure they involve more chips... but they are low power so they can reach reasonably high chip density in a single unit.