Author: Slater Wold
Date: 08:19:29 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.) > >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. I'm glad we're on the same page here. >Keith
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