Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From http://www.cavium.com/newsevents_Nitrox2PR.htm: "Product pricing at 1KU >lot quantities ranges from $295 for the CN2130 to $795 for the CN2560. The >NITROX II Software Development Kit is priced at $9995." > >Not priced for a huge number of implementors. They probably hope to sell a >few hundred develoment kits and maybe 10,000 to 100,000 chips. They don't >even put their data sheets online. Maybe they're just a scam?
They're for real all right, and have a pretty nice product, but they've fallen into the same trap that many smart card vendors fall into where they want to sell their cards for $20 each but price the SDK at $995 and then wonder why no-one's supporting their hardware. (Hint to vendors: The cutoff in most organisations at which implementors have to get 15 levels of management approval to get something is $70-100. If your SDK costs more than that, you're practically guaranteeing that it's not going to be used. If you want your hardware supported, give away the SDK, or at most charge some token amount to deter freeloaders if you're worried about that). Peter.
