Para já, continuo a não acreditar.
Quando vir pessoas a dizerem que receberam os seus, aí acredito.
O artigo também não fala muito de como é o seu principio de funcionamento.
Qualquer ASIC consegue "enfunilar" os comandos necessários e os cálculos, mas pelo que percebo, contrariamente às SHA256, as Scrypt necessitam de memória e muita, dado o que o algoritmos faz na realidade.
Portanto dizerem que lançam uma ASIC, ya, ok, parabéns, mas... acredito quando as pessoas começarem a exibir as suas máquinas!

For proof of work, Bitcoin uses the highly parallelizable SHA256 hash function, hence Bitcoin mining is an embarrassingly parallel task. Litecoin uses scrypt instead of SHA256 for proof of work. The scrypt hash function uses SHA256 as a subroutine, but also depends on fast access to large amounts of memory rather than depending just on fast arithmetic operations, so it is more difficult to run many instances of scrypt in parallel by using the ALUs of a modern graphics card. This also implies that the manufacturing cost of specialized scrypt hardware (ASIC) will be significantly more expensive than SHA256 ASIC. Since modern GPUs have plenty of RAM, they do prove useful for Litecoin mining, though the improvement over CPUs is less significant than it was for Bitcoin mining (about 10x speedup instead of 20x speedup when comparing Radeon 5870 GPU to quad-core CPU).

The particular scrypt parameters that Litecoin uses (N=1024,p=1,r=1) let non-mining users who run the full client (and thereby verify and propagate the blocks) multitask in their operating system without affecting the responsiveness. These scrypt parameter still reduce the advantage of ASIC by a 10-fold estimate, according to Colin Percival, the creator of scrypt.