> On the note of "if only we could properly finance you", I actually > happen to know some very good recently retired ASIC design engineers, > and if there were "proper" financing available, I might be able to > convince them to come out of retirement and work on a libre LTE modem > ASIC project with me. But the "proper" financing for a project of > that sort would need to be well into millions of dollars, hence I am > not holding my breath for any such venture. > > On the other hand, you can have a libre modem for GSM/2G based on the > elderly Calypso chipset for much much less: the already-developed > FCDEV3B modem boards for hobbyists and tinkerers will probably go for > somewhere in the $500-600 USD range retail, and if you are interested > in an SMT modem module (directly competing with SIM900 etc) based on > the FreeCalypso core, the development cost would be somewhere in the > low 5 digits USD, as opposed to the 7 digits for a new LTE modem ASIC.
Have you looked at the crazy things that have raised stupid amounts just because they say 'blockchain buzzword buzzword PROFIT' recently? If there was ever a time to do a $100 million dollar coin offering for open-source hardware silicon, it would probably be now. Choice of venue to incorporate said offering should be left to supporting blockchain partner company lawyers. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
