[Hardware] The market of ASICs (One GigaKey / Second?)

[david fleischer]

Hi,
I think here we're jumping the gun a bit.
Not all projects need to be economical, not at the
beginning anyway.
It may be that at first doing this will be quite
expensive; but what may not be economical now, may
become so in a few years, or for a different
application.
The goal I think should be to build the hardware
implementation and then worry about the cost.
(Build it and they will come)
The first stage of a hardware implementation is a
paper design anyway, so the only cost is the man
hours,
which are purportedly free.
This should get us fairly close to determining if the
hardware can improve the key/rate and by how much.

Best regards,
David
> 
> I'm a little confused, if you're selling them at
> 100/ea in bulk,
> what's the end user paying? More like 200 to 400 ea.
> Even for cancer,
> that's a lot. Remember that most OEM's mark up the
> hardware...
>