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What is your point Crumbs? This thread is about a product that will exist in the future. Whether the cat will be alive or dead is yet to be determined. You seem to be saying that people are jumping to conclusions too fast, maybe you are doing the same.
There is a large group of knowledgeable people working toward a goal. Is that nothing? This is how all chips have been created. If your point is that people should not buy a product that doesn't exist, you've done that thoroughly. Unfortunately people who wait until there is a finished product are too late in the ASIC game.
What is your point Crumbs? This thread is about a product that will exist in the future. Whether the cat will be alive or dead is yet to be determined. You seem to be saying that people are jumping to conclusions too fast, maybe you are doing the same.
There is a large group of knowledgeable people working toward a goal. Is that nothing? This is how all chips have been created. If your point is that people should not buy a product that doesn't exist, you've done that thoroughly. Unfortunately people who wait until there is a finished product are too late in the ASIC game.
The point is so blunt that it's embarrassing for me to be the one making it. Yet this thread has grown to 20 pages of unchecked ASIC mania, so someone had to do it.
I see you're already orchestrating a group buy? May i ask what it is you're buying?
You gave a link to a paper coauthored by Simon Barber. Bitcoin-related, for sure, but technical? It's as relevant to ASIC design as The US Constitution. Have you read it? In case my point is again obscure, i'll spell it out: The paper has nothing to do with any sort of silicon design. Nothing. Not relevant.
TL;DR: What ASIC? What specs? Where's the cat? Where's the cradle?
j/k.. 
. I'm sure Schroedinger had just this sort of situation in mind when he came up with his cruel (thought) experiment!
. Remember the ASICminer blade auctions and how people lost their heads over those? I'd be happy to be proved wrong on this though. 