| ASICs can work with more memory, no problem Up to a point. When you need more memory than fits on a single chip, you have to incur off-chip delays in accessi

| ASICs can work with more memory, no problem Up to a point. When you need more memory than fits on a single chip, you have to incur off-chip delays in accessing memory. Basically your ASIC is now just an application specific manycore CPU that needs to interface to commodity DRAM. At which point it may not have much advantage over commodity CPUs...