Re: [OT] Crazy idea: Design open-source graphics chip

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> The real question we have to ask ourselves is, what would be the 
> market demand for a graphics card that is 3 generations behind the 
> state of the art and over-priced, the only advantage being that it's 
> a 100% open architecture?
> 
> I don't have _100k to have it fabricated, so we have to goad some 
> company into doing it for us, and given the volumes, they'll have to 
> charge way more than it's worth if you compare its capabilities 
> against ATI et al.
> 
> I've got some great ideas for how to do this chip, but they're 
> frankly nothing revolutionary.  The obvious test bed is an FPGA.  
> That imposes serious limitations on what kind of logic utilization 
> and performance we can get.  The ASIC version can be clocked faster, 
> but we dare not put in untested logic.  (And we can't afford the 
> tools necessary to do the proper simulation.)
> 
> 
> So, the big question:  How many units a year would be sold for an 
> underpowered, over-priced graphics card that just happens to be 100% 
> open and 100% supported?

It might be very usefull for embeded folks from opencores...
				Pavel
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