OK, I can tell you don't understand the R&D process.
Essentially, engineers look at GPU, with best performance and put together a cheaper (ASIC) prototype, but these have to be produced in batches of 500-1,000.
These prototype batches, strip the extra GPU functions not necessary to hashing the algorithm.
The engineers keep repeating this process with each batch of prototypes.
This process is done in secret and is self-financing so long as news never gets out that this is being done, because the prototype batches produce Alt Coins, which can be sold for BTC and converted into cash to pay for the next generation of prototypes.
What the engineers are hoping for is some kind of breakthrough, in this process, which produces chip design that makes vastly more hash output per a unit of electricity.
On Dash, X11 prototype batches where being produced 6 months, before the engineers made the breakthrough.
The situation on Ethereum is slightly different, the prototype batches have become highly lucrative with Ethereum prices about 0.014BTC to 0.028BTC.
So, those engineers who are working on Dagger algorithm are simply chucking out bigger and bigger batches of the prototypes
