> > I think Video In/Out will increase your market a lot. Think settop > > boxes and MythTV users. I reciently was working on a project that was > > targeted for 12,000 units a year and each unit had 2 video in's. Two > > independent streams so 2 chips. Had an ASIC been available we > > probally could have used OGD instead of ATI. > > What would be cool is if a company figured out that they needed > something exactly like OGD and gave us an advance on a big purchase. > :) As a side note, if someone were to do that, we would be willing to > make modifications/additions that didn't compromise the functioning of
Noted. We were just a little too early with that one. That was about two years ago. However, I think the embedded landscape is still good for a OGD. For years the defacto embedded VGA chips were the asiliant 69000 and 69030. Feb of 04 they wen't lifetime buy. The fab that made the dies phased out the process for a smaller pitch. Asiliant is basically an IP company with little design power. So they were unable to turn a new chip based on a smaller process. There was a serious void there for a bit but no Silicon Motion with thier 7XX family of chips appears to be taking the the place of the 69030. The 69030 was a great chip. Although you still had to have a legacy bios to post the chip the chipset docs are available on-line with no NDA and they were cheap. -- Richard A. Smith _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
