What do you see this actually achieving? You make an ASIC for very specific reasons; FPGAs already do a great job of bridging the gap, including in production.

What do you see this actually achieving? You make an ASIC for very specific reasons; FPGAs already do a great job of bridging the gap, including in production. For example many budget oscilloscopes these days run with a microprocessor-FPGA pair. As for an scrypt ASIC, I don't believe you could just whip one up over a weekend. I don't know how the scrypt ASIC nut was eventually cracked, but the algorithm was specifically chosen to be hard to make an ASIC for. It requires fast memory and lots of it. If you make yourself a massively parallel ASIC and bolt it onto some GDDR5... that starts to look a lot like a GPU.