On 5/12/06, Ray Heasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please take the following message as constructive criticism, and try to
make your replies the same.
I am very concerned. I think that the Open Graphics Project is on the
road to nowhere. As it currently stands, it is doomed. It is doomed to
irrelevance. It is doomed to produce something
state-of-the-last-century. It is doomed to produce something that so few
people will care about that it will pass away unnoticed.
[snip]
Furthermore, as process feature sizes get smaller, it becomes harder and
harder to design for them. FPGAs don't suffer from that problem, because
the tiny feature sizes only impact the initial design of an FPGA cell,
and every design uses many repeats of the same cell. FPGAs are getting
cheaper and more powerful. Perhaps we should just count on that and use
it to do things a static ASIC simply can't do? I can see the point of
freezing a subset and implementing it as an ASIC, because it would make
money, but if the FPGA version of OGP doesn't have a real value
proposition for people, it may as well not exist.
Keep in mind that the first 'buyable' cards are supposed to be only a
'fancy' FPGA with lots of memory in wich development of the graphics
card(and sound, and second generation programmable gpu) will happen.
It's aimed to be sold to developers and universities, not to
end-users.
If you are even thinking that selling a FPGA graphics card to
end-users will be profitable at any end, you must apply most of what
you said to what you are thinking.
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