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ABH3PO · 3w
I domt think you can make an ASIC for randomX because of its nature of having to go through the "problem" sequentially.
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It's always possible to accelerate math with function specific silicon, the market just doesn't bother for monero because the leadership tends to rotate the hash algo quite frequently.

A state actor or central bank wouldn't be producing monero asics to generate revenue though they'd be doing it to covertly perform a massive reorg or mine empty blocks.
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TS · 3w
https://m.bitmain.com/?coin=XMR XMR Asics already apparently on Bitmain's website. Don't know if actually viable yet and currently out of stock.
ABH3PO · 3w
It is not always possible, there's absolutely no basis in this truth for this. It maybe possible, it may not be possible, the certainty in your statement is false.
Raison d'État · 3w
Yes, it is possible to create a RandomX ASIC, but by the time you have optimised for every possible RandomX function, you have built an entire CPU. Probably an inferior one, at vast expense. But it will run DOOM, so not a total loss. That one "RandomX ASIC" commercially available turned out to be a...
brito · 3w
It was tried, still cheaper to just use existing CPUs