> Once Milkymist matures to the point that it can form the architectural > basis for creating an ASIC SOC with competitive processing power to an > Ingenic 4760 (as a lower bound) then everything changes.
Parts of Milkymist SoC that I wrote are launching on a NASA flight to the ISS next January... so I guess it's not that immature, at least for the core parts (I do admit that there are some areas for improvement in a few peripherals, most of them being unneeded for a notebook except USB). I think there are actually few technical obstacles to making a small SoC for notebooks with basically those core parts. The main developments would only be improving the USB controller and designing a MMU (which we might do this summer btw). It's basically a matter of getting down to it and investing money (Ron, please help us improving sales) in the chip fabrication. Oh, and you'd discover the wonderful world of the ultra-proprietary Synopsys/Cadence tools, which display *blinking* patent notices on the console when you launch them :) (speaking about those tools, this is quite funny too: http://www.sigasi.com/content/your-milage-may-vary-lot) S. _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
