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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Asics are used in data centers for many use cases, one example is to hash ssl certificates

https://www.xpointnetwork.com/blog/asic-based-ssl-offloading/
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raw_avocado | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Fair point.

However they are not quite an industry on their own.

And indeed ASICs were a thing before Bitcoin.