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Re:Bitcoin in 2012: By the Numbers by jerguismi on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @12:12PM (#4997701)
Isn't the idea of ASIC's in general that they are only supposed to do one thing?
Re:Bitcoin in 2012: By the Numbers by sp332 on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @12:38PM (#4997878)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIC "As feature sizes have shrunk and design tools improved over the years, the maximum complexity (and hence functionality) possible in an ASIC has grown from 5,000 gates to over 100 million. Modern ASICs often include entire microprocessors, memory blocks including ROM, RAM, EEPROM, Flash and other large building blocks. Such an ASIC is often termed a SoC (system-on-chip)."