Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:03:50 04/10/03
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On April 10, 2003 at 11:19:29, Slater Wold wrote: >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. the dudes with a good program that would profit from getting in hardware and do have a need then to use hashtables, they do care though. for them it is a commercial project if they do. then costs is everything. >>Keith
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