Just playing devil's advocate here, but I'd tend to say that a team capable of reverse-engineering an ASIC by selectively etching layers and taping-out a replica, already has the skillset to just develop an scrypt core from scratch.  Given that scrypt's internal workings aren't secret knowledge, and the possible hardware approaches to go about it are generally self-evident and well-documented from scrypt research outside of the cryptocurrency community, I think it would take less time to implement from scratch rather than reverse someone else's design.  If we were talking about replicating, say, Sandy Bridge, or some of AMD and Nvidia's GPU dies, that would be one thing.  But an ASIC implementation of scrypt just isn't that hard to do from scratch.  95% of other cores that end up in various ASIC's across other industries are significantly more complex than an scrypt core.

I'd say any team with the knowledge needed to reverse an ASIC, can probably also easily determine the appropriate TMTO and SRAM size (or external DDR3/GDDR5 size) for the particular silicon process node they're targetting to optimize cost/performance (and, really, there's only 2 choices along the TMTO spectrum that are going to land near the peak cost/performance for an ASIC implementation with on-die SRAM, and only 1 optimal TMTO choice for external DDR3 or GDDR5).  I don't see where there's much to gain in anyone's ASIC development cycle from looking at someone else's scrypt die.

Thank you for the clarification windmaster.

lol, if he said LTC that means LTC not BTC or other coin. you smoke pot?

you could be so smart 2 post ago then there would be any conversation about it 

I woudn't even consider letting these things out into the wild until viable competing devices show up.

If you folks truly have what you say you have, i hope you have a serious fab contract. 

We battled with ideas on how to handle this for about 4 months, the distributed hosting suggestion came from outside our team and I must say it was genius.

You know, someone mentioned that name on the litecoin forum but I had never actually seen him post on here.

And no the suggestion came from a forum admin, I will ask him permission before saying it was his idea

Thats messed up, I would think there were more of those kinda schemes out there. I have not really seen anyone straight up pull a scam yet for scrypt miners. I guess he was the first. There are a bunch of companies popping up, and their speeds and specs seem to be very close to the datasheet we posted. I think this kinda thing will likely get worse as we go.

Ok, I got the go ahead, Hauntingshade suggested I distribute the miners initially.

Will these asics be able to vanitygen addresses?