It is possible to do scrypt with a fpga, so that implies asic is possible too. I have seen a POC. With that said I am extremely skeptical if it can hit above 60k/s rate. Let alone even 10k/s scrypt hashing rate.
My FPGA is hashing at 60Kh/s, granted, it's a 5000$ fpga, but it is possible.
Litecoin will work fine on asic with on-die sram. You can even calculate the hash rate based on known factors.
200 / (2048 * 8) * Ncores = scrypt hashrate in Mh/s based on 200Mhz clock speed
It appears what they've done to keep the chip small is to implement 4x 256Kbit on-die memories for hashing as I haven't seen anything mentioned about an off chip memory. At 55nm 1mbit of sram is about 7.63mm2. At 28nm 1mbit of sram is 3.88mm2. The max size for QFN-48 (which is a 7x7mm package) silicon is around 4x4mm so have roughly 16mm2 of space. They couldn't have implemented 4x 1mbit as it would be to large (with an exception for the 28nm which would be 15.52mm2, but even then there wouldn't be enough room for all those bitcoin hashers). The speed and stats are certainly within the realm of possibility.
Looks like their site is up. Didn't work the first time.
55nm chip, so definitely within the realm of possibility.
Hey senseless, which code are you using for LTC? Thanks a lot
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