Great post. Equihash has all along been used on zcash but no ASIC seem to have been compatible with the algo for now. Equihash claims to dwell on RAM space rather than processing power. As the trend goes from top-down as you rightly stated bitmain or some other company might come up with something
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Once ZCash gets up around the market capitalisation of DASH I am certain someone will have a go at building an ASIC for Equihash. Maybe even sooner if BTG goes ok.