On 8/14/06, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Timothy Miller wrote:
> On 8/14/06, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I think that we need to give this some thought. Can we build a
>> board that will be faster? Or, cheaper? Can we have it made in
>> China? Can we leverage existing technology to do so? Or, is
>> reinventing the wheel the best way to do it?
>
> Cheaper is hard, because you need more money up front. With $20
> million (to pull a random number out of my hat),
Which is why I suggested looking into Venture Capital firms. Yes, there
are a lot of bad things to say about some of them, but they do have money.
Yes, and once we've sold a few OGD1 boards, perhaps some will take us seriously.
Is it necessary to place a huge order in China? Are there suppliers
that would perhaps be willing to do smaller runs than US firms?
We'll have to ask someone who knows more about board fabhouses
> That same up-front extra money would buy us more speed as well,
> because we'd be going with a full-custom technology.
I fully realize that full custom and a single chip is the way to go for
high volume, but for lower volume, is a single chip the best solution?
IIUC, it is board cost vs. chip cost and the economies of scale kick in
much earlier for boards.
Mostly it's a chip problem due to the massive up-front cost and higher
volumes necessary to get good piece prices.
> We'd be able to ramp up the clock rate, and with significant extra
> engineering work, we could also widen the drawing engine.
I wasn't necessarily thinking about a faster clock. I was thinking
about more GPU hardware.
Either way. :)
> Note that we still expect TRV10 to sell better as a "high-end
> embedded" chip than a desktop GPU.
Perhaps that is a large market that I really don't know much about.
However, this is a good fit with using a semi-custom NorthBridge chip
for a video board since this chip would not (always) be used with an
embedded design.
Well, for the moment, designing northbridge chips is a big too ambitious for me.
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