We are venturing on my opinions now but yes, the ASIC development is important in my opinion. It really is exercising the "pipeline" for computer programs baked directly into chips. It is the direction the industry is moving and why you see so much activity in the RISC-V space for example. This tech is the future for faster computing / more efficient computing. I am not actually sure though if tech like RISC-V is used today in the ASIC miners. I think I'll look into that.