Will the ASIC Miner come to support CryptoNight?

[ss10miner]

Will the ASIC / FPGA Miner come to support CryptoNight?

[rumpel_tusk]

If there is a big enough market with Cryptonight coins, then yes. ASICs support the most popular algos. If more coins start being built with that algo and Bitmain can profit from building a Cryptonight ASIC, then we will see them being sold.

[cpmcgrat]

If there is a big enough market with Cryptonight coins, then yes. ASICs support the most popular algos. If more coins start being built with that algo and Bitmain can profit from building a Cryptonight ASIC, then we will see them being sold.

This is semi-correct. CryptoNight is setup in a way that is memory intensive. Memory on an ASIC is very expensive, making it extremely expensive to make an ASIC for cryptonight (same goes for ethash).

[slanislaw]

2MB of silicon in each chip would make for a very expensive ASIC.

Even if an ASIC did come out the advantage it would have wouldn't be that much better than our best GPU's today (Vega).