This week, Bitmain, an ASIC Miner developing company, announced it's ethash miner E3 and promised the shipping at July 2018. And after the it's announcement, they have post it at their website with the price tag of 800 USD.
Source:https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/958)
The specification was equal to that of mining rig: 180MH/s per second. Despite being an ASIC. It was very similar to that of power of 8 Way 1080TI Miner.
However it seems ETHEREUM community is mad about this issue, as we can see their eagerness to hardfork the ethereum as soon as possible.
The following is the screenshot of github, after the announcement. They seem like they are very eager to hardfork the coin.
And if they are this eager to hardfork the coin, I guess that this miner announced by Bitmain will be bricked soon , since it has no mining capability except coin with ethash algorithms. Or it is possible Ethereum Cash could happen, as we can see from Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash hardfork case. Either way, what I believe is that it wouldn't be profitable to mine the ethereum at July either, and the price for E3 miner will eventually drop.
Therefore if you are considering to buy E3, stop and rethink about it.