On Monday 21 February 2005 22:20, Timothy Miller wrote: > I had mentioned earlier that I've been tied up with the business > aspects of the OGP, and I thought some of you might be interested in > hearing about what's going on and have some discussion on it.
Definitely, please keep us posted. I've no doubt the hardware and software side of it can get done. Without a viable business plan we're nowhere though. > The retail graphics board will be affected such that the board will > now sell with a much lower retail price. Furthermore, we're looking > into the idea of selling the retail board through partners who > specialize in that so as to further reduce the price. The result will > be a MUCH less expensive retail product. There is also a likelihood > that we'll have greater freedom in terms of power consumption versus > speed. Excellent! I'm not that interested in the FPGA board, because I know I won't have time to get into it, and it will probably require using proprietary tools for programming it anyway. > At the same time, we don't want to leave behind those who would like > to tinker. In any case, we will have to design a prototype board, and > so our plan is to sell that as a product in its own right. Some > changes to it include possibly separating the host controller out into > a separate chip so that you can reprogram the main FPGA as you like > without affecting your ability to reprogram it again. Putting it > another way, the prototype will be designed with features that lend > themselves more effectively towards experimentation. The lower sales > volumes of this product will increase its cost relative to the > original plan. If, however, we get higher volume than expected, the > price will go down, especially for bulk orders. There's nothing to compete with anyway, so it's okay if it got more expensive. If it's a toy for the interested geek then price is probably not going to be that much of a problem :-). How does an ASIC compare to an FPGA? I guess it doesn't have any constraints in terms of "amount of subcomponent X" so we'll need to optimise for chip surface size rather than number of multipliers and/or LUTs? Lourens _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
