Interesting discussion! There are some exciting things that could be done with an ASIC, but at the same time an ASIC would require extensive supply chain secur

Interesting discussion! There are some exciting things that could be done with an ASIC, but at the same time an ASIC would require extensive supply chain security to be in place (which is a big task). There are a lot of hands touching the design and silicon from point of design sign-off, to ASICs in your hand. Supply chain attack is more difficult on a FPGAs, partly by processes implemented by the vendors and partly by the fact how FPGAs work, since there is no functionality in the FPGA, malware injection is more difficult (close to impossible?). Glad to hear your reasoning around this. (Full disclosure: I work at Tillitis)