ASICs have been around all the time. The NSA surely will have the latest and even unavailable technology for breaking hashes.
Beside that I don't think CPU's displace GPUs for accelerated computing but the next big step will be CPU and GPU working closely together. Like AMDs HAS or Nvidias NVLink. And maybe both will merge together forever like FPU (i come from those days where you had to buy the FPU seperately and plug it into her own socket on the mainboard...)
Beside that I don't think CPU's displace GPUs for accelerated computing but the next big step will be CPU and GPU working closely together. Like AMDs HAS or Nvidias NVLink. And maybe both will merge together forever like FPU (i come from those days where you had to buy the FPU seperately and plug it into her own socket on the mainboard...)