Personally, I think using Kickstarter is a GREAT idea. But right now, I think we should focus on the simulator, which will become more and more hardware-centric, until we reach the point where it's straightforward to code the design up in Verilog. THEN we'll have something to Kickstart. Up to that point, we'll at least have a great research tool.
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Terry Hancock <[email protected]> wrote: > André Pouliot <[email protected]> said: >> But when we do have something let company or university do the actual > hardware. > > The point I was making is that that's the old "conventional wisdom". Doesn't > necessarily apply anymore. > >> A few year ago making a video card did make sense, it's not the case > anymore. The volume is going toward embedded device: cellphone and tablet for > content consumer. > > Well, the way I understood the economics, the expensive thing was to get the > chips produced. Organized as a Kickstarter, you could offer several different > rewards, ranging from an open-hardware tablet to a desktop video card to the > bare chip itself (or block quantities of them). IOW, the rewards could be > different devices all based on the same chipset. > > There would be costs associated with creating each of the different products, > but from what I understand, this cost would be small compared to the chip-fab > setup costs, so it would be rational to bundle them if it made for alluring > consumer products that would attract the necessary volume of pledges. > > Of course, you could _form_ a company to make those designs, if it made things > easier. > > This is just a general strategy, not a specific plan, but I'm just trying to > suggest how a crowd-funding strategy might work today. > > Cheers, > Terry > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
