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), we can get lots more chips at a way lower unit cost. Of course, we have to sell them. And yes, we can get cheaper boards by doing huge orders from Taiwan or China. That same up-front extra money would buy us more speed as well, because we'd be going with a full-custom technology. We'd be able to ramp up the clock rate, and with significant extra engineering work, we could also widen the drawing engine. This is all some time off yet, though. Let's design something that works, while we raise funds by selling OGD1 boards. We have an idea of what throughput we'll get from the FPGA. When that's working, we can shop around with ASIC vendors and make some estimates as to what clock rate we'll get with each of them. Note that we still expect TRV10 to sell better as a "high-end embedded" chip than a desktop GPU. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
