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We just have to look at the world of bitcoin mining to see that custom fabricated ASICs would wipe the floor with general purpose CPUs for this kind of task.

Intel 3930k = 66.6 Mhash/s AntMiner S9 ASIC = 14,000,000 Mhash/s

A single S9 uses 189 BM1387 chips to achieve that 14TH/s.

So that's only 74074 Mh/s per ASIC.

Granted, that's still wiping the floor...

I've seen this hypothesis before. What I haven't seen is anything more concrete than "I heard about a guy who knows a guy who sold the pspice license that was used to..."

I could remember seeing some photo, cannot remember where.

I read that in the Dan Brown book, Digital Fortress.

I don't know why this is downvoted. Might be the correct explanation to "I saw somewhere".