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RE: The ASIC Race to Release
Thanks for returning. I was busy too.
The ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) is just a chip on a board that is programmed to do only one thing. It is plugged in by USB and hashes on the bitcoin blockchain. There is no functionality for running windows or linux.
GPU's are made to hash pixels and graphic rendering - using them to mine does not take advantage of what they were designed to do. It was a first step in mining though.
Thank you for clarifying the Asic, I suppose if as you say were the forerunners of many of the technologies in mining that we know today.👍