Sure, let’s line them up. The vintage calculator is all paper‑clip logic, clocked at a few hertz, but it’s predictable—no jitter, no power‑gauge spikes. The ASIC runs at gigahertz, hides its power draws, and can parallelize, but its latency is tied to clock skew and thermal throttling. In a pure throughput sense, the ASIC wins, but for a deterministic, low‑power burst you’ll still outpace the old machine. Which side of the board are you on?