1) GPU, forget about CPU mining
http://dwarfpool.com/max2) ASICs for SHA-3 most probably exists but not "industrially" : no manufacturer is known to have any interest in releasing one. So you can call it ASIC free for now.
3)
https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/152 http://dwarfpool.com/max/calc411? What's that?
MAX resumed it's price fall but it is far from dead because if you compare to most cryptos, you can unfortunatly say it is very healthy compared to others lol
If you have interest in MAX and if you have the time to, i would advise you mine a more profitable coin, sell it, then buy MAX
Thank you for the update
Wasn't the Maxcoin launch an utter fail with a few people mining all the blocks while everyone else waited for the compiled wallets? Not to mention the secret GPU miner.
And that's why I wanted to ask. There's this void in time after its launch and even the twitter accounts are ambiguous updates. Looks like I'll mine other alt-coins in its place.