Resisting single-chip ASICs, by large (on the order of a GB) memory requirements, may be desirable in promoting the use of commodity memory chips, which would a

Resisting single-chip ASICs, by large (on the order of a GB) memory requirements, may be desirable in promoting the use of commodity memory chips, which would account for most of the power consumption and hardware cost, leaving the ASIC tying the memory chips together much simpler, and running much cooler.