Acorn was to be released in August. Whenever there were questions about SQRL Miner (to test it even without Acorn) the answer was that it would be released with Acorns. It is already December 5. Hardware without software is useless. By the way, the numbers illustrating the advantage of using Acorn, were released in June, I believe.
Exactly. Back in june for example a 1080 Ti was able to reach 15-18 MH/s, depending on PL. Now we are at 24-28 MH/s.
No information if the Acorn FPGA is able to generate the same percentage of improvement or if the software miner were able to close the gap "a little".
That's due to the eth enlargement pill which was a unique case, that still doesn't have anything to do with fpga. Software solutions wouldn't be able to compete with offloading certain work to an fpga that the fpga is excellent at.