Yes, one benefit of this direction is that some compromises are lifted. The ASIC solution takes care of the cost, speed, and power-consumption issues, while the FPGA solution will be designed to be more easily reprogrammed.
Although pricing will be decided based on hard reality, I am curious about opinions on that. Now that the retail board will be cheap, what do you think is reasonable, based on the chip and board prices of competing products? And for the FPGA project/prototype board, how much extra are you willing to pay, given the fact that lower volumes and higher chip count will increase the cost? On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:38:01 +0100, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy Miller wrote: > > > To compete in that market, of course, we will have to develop an > > ASIC. As such, that will likely be the new primary direction of the > > OGP. > > Good. For my next computer, I'd ideally want the chip onboard and for my > current one I'm more interested in the price and power consumption (and > even more so in so far as that translates to generated heat at a given > speed) than I am in playing with an FPGA. > > Rene. > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
