Just a slight clarification on this statement.  Ubiq did not fork to subdue ASIC, it forked to remove the rental attack potential from services like Nicehash. A nice side affect of this change was a hiccup to any people running ASIC on the network right now, they will need to code the new algo to their ASIC. The ETH algo is far to prevalent to continue to use that hashing system so a change was implemented to ever so slightly remove UBQ from that ETHhash relationship.  If someone was inclined they can produce an ASIC for any POW coin if they dedicate the resources to do so.