Sun has a similar initiative, OpenSPARC. The "incremental cost" is not zero. You're talking about the startup cost.
It's expensive to fab custom silicon, but comparatively cheap to make a core on an FPGA. However when mass-producing, FPGA's are expensive per-unit compared to custom fab. So they only make sense for small (<10K) production runs. On 2/26/07, Marvin T. Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OpenCores is a loose collection of people who are interested in developing hardware, with a similar ethos to the free software movement. Currently the emphasis is on digital modules called 'cores', since FPGAs have reduced the incremental cost of a core to approximately zero. Activity is centered around the opencores web site (http://www.opencores.org).
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