Here is my Intellihash theory,
we all know how cpu manufacturers do, they design multicore cpu and each is produced with maximum number of cores,
however micro-geometric impurities may make weak spots on many places making just one or few out of billions of transistors unusable,
then the whole core which contains impurities is disabled and rest of chip can work on high frequency,
if same analogy is here, lets say some chip have 100 parallel processing pipelines and it works fine on its nominal frequency,
lets assume that particular chip have 1 out of 100 pipelines that contain impurity as limiting factor,
if software recognize failing pipeline and disable it then maybe remaining 99 pipelines can run on 30% faster clock,
or some particular pipeline may work fast but draining more than usual power and spreading heat to rest of chip.
So this intelligent algorithm will find most optimal configuration to squeeze highest speed or lowest power drain for each chip by disabling and scaling freq.
User may have ability to choose configuration with click of a button saying "give me max hashrate" (early use and high power)
and then other button "give me lowest power configuration" (late profitability use) and with click of button chips reconfigure by software.
That can be a whole envelope of speed versus power, different for every chip.
It could be a win to have lots "overclocking champion" chips by this method, and a very attractive buy or a profitable farm,
we know how users like to buy unlocked cpus or gpus and squeeze max from it.
In this business everyone is overclocker.
Also another possibility is, there could be multiple ways to do the same hashing,
one algorithm could theoretically drain less power over the other algorithm and still finish the same job on that chip architecture or individual sample.
If it drain less power then that chip could work on higher speed as well.
I see that some people are concerned with selling miners "too cheap" and having low profit, however there is the simple trick to this, if ken just delay their shipment and use first chips to actm farm.
This means miners would not be sold too cheap compared to network hash rate.
It just should not delay too much to upset the customers.