Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:07:22 04/10/03
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On April 09, 2003 at 21:02:18, Keith Evans wrote: >On April 09, 2003 at 19:26:12, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > > >> >>Well most importantly because it makes the end product too expensive to sell. >> >>whatever you create, it must be like under $150k to produce. If it is $150k then >>the end user already pays more than $500 for such a card which is already in the >>danger zone. If it gets $200 then it sells for $750 or so. >> >>if it produces for $250 then you sell for $1000. >> >>$1000 is just too much for such cards. >> >>producing couple of thousands of 'chips' from it: $50 >>getting couple of thousands of pci cards + license: $100 >> >>that's already $150 >> >>so if you put for $100 ram at it with patented stuff then it's $250 which makes >>the card too expensive. >> >>be realistic that you must count on selling 10000 of these things. that is >>already a big risk! >> > >Some points: > >1 - SDRAM (or whatever) is way cheaper than Xilinx parts. If you cared about >this, you could either offer it as an upgrade option, or let people upgrade >themselves. (The standard practice would be to require a special DIMM so you >could charge extra.) DDR ram is not too slow, but the problem is to interface to it in a cheap way. how are you going to do that? Every interface eats money to license it. Further we do not speak about ASIC here but FPGA. How to interface memory cheaply to FPGA? >2 - I don't care about cost. No interest in selling this. (Don't confuse me with >Uri.) Believe me there are far easier ways to make money. getting professor is easiest way, but i found that out too late :) >Keith
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