Of course you had to pointedly ignore KnC, because as the most successful BTC ASIC company ever, their example proves your latter claim demonstrably false.
You forgot to add "/s" so people don't think you're being serious.
So which BTC ASIC company is more successful than KnC?
Bitfury, Bitmain, Avalon, Asicminer, Lketc..
Nobody wants to buy a giant chip that requires $150 worth of cooling when you could use smaller chips with ~$30 worth of cooling.