Hmm, we'll need to wait for the source code and a detailed analysis of the exploit, but 6500 years of CPU time suggest a high degree of parallelism right of the

Hmm, we'll need to wait for the source code and a detailed analysis of the exploit, but 6500 years of CPU time suggest a high degree of parallelism right of the bat. Depending on the demands of the algorithm, an ASIC could outmatch an x86 farm —possibly by even more orders of magnitude than they do GPUs. Possible hurdles for the ASIC are memory hardness, (memory costs the same no matter the architecture), branching, and complex operations such as multiplications. They could destroy any advantage the ASIC have.