Forcing activation of SegWit on Litecoin

It also appears that the new L3+s are likely beginning to ship - the hash rate has started to drop for LTC.
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/litecoin/difficulty

The price of B3 units has also increased by nearly $300 to $1644 with the July 15th ship date.
https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020170421084559639JXjxhiwd0732

Appears Bitmain believes LTC value is increasing and they're pricing accordingly.

What happend to KNC, Zeus, Alchemist... why is there no more competition?