On Sunday 25 July 2010 14:58:46 jtd wrote: > On Sunday 25 July 2010 11:53:53 jitendra wrote: > > My guess > > it is all gas > > The minutes of the board meeting of NME talks of visiting China and > obtaining suitable devices. This is proly the result. See my > earlier mail.
http://www.ignouonline.ac.in/pab/Meeting13.pdf > > The BOM cost was mentioned as 12 $. Assuming that several embedded > tricks like XIP was used, the minimum ram would be 16MB to run a > 320x240 FB. It would not be possible to fit in an LCD display of > even the most rudimentary performance in that price. Even if the > government owned the FABs and used one of the unencumbered cores > and ran the operation at costs. > > I have mailed the low cost device forum at NME too. Let see if they > respond. > > IMO at very very large volumes, ZERO profits and the most > rudimentary graphics performance it might just be doable. I mean at a BOM price point of $35. The zero profit market price would then be at $50~55. But we do not have a fab - any fab. So unless the govt has purchased a fab and intends to get it going in 2 or 3 months, I would think it was a pie-in-the-sky. Anyway let see what N.K. Sinha has to say. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
