-n isn't going to make this coin exclusive to gpu, its just a short delay. they are already in production. you can contact any asic manufacture from alibaba.com and tell them "i want a miner designed to mine -n exclusively"
since the devs are fighting so hard for -n i'll gladly take back my ipo. no sense in debating this topic anymore.
you've officially killed this coin, congratulations!
N = 2048, i think ASICs have a shot.. but as N increases.. I think ASICs will have a hard time staying on top of GPUs, as long as there is still a market for GPUs (and mobile SOCs don't overtake everything...). GPU development is state of the art right now: Memory controllers, FB sizes, latest nM processes.. the engineering capabilities at a lot of these startup ASIC companies in alibaba will be l.o.l.
Maybe one day the coin asic market will be bigger than the GPU market.. and hence they will have the engineering brains, process-capabilities (25nm go!) , wafers at TSMC.. that GPU companies have a monopoly over in semi-conductor industry.
But given that today, the estimated market for this is ASIC coin market is $100M... and the estimated market for GPUs is at least $10B... i just doubt they will be able to keep up if algo difficulty rises.
But .. hey who knows..