[Arm-netbook] arm netbook component pricing

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Michelle Konzack
<linux4michelle at tamay-dogan.net> wrote:
> Hello Luke,
>
> Am 2010-03-26 15:22:10, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
>> * 720mhz OMAP3530 + 256mb POP DDR2 RAM: $65.   insanely expensive.
>
> How do you count the price and in which quantity?

 http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/omap3530.html

 $50 for 1k units of the 3530 720mhz !!!  i counted $15 as a rough
guess for POP DDR2 RAM.  but... actually, duhh, you don't _really_
need to do that, so you could use "ordinary" DDR2, so make that ....
mmm $8.  so... that's $58 and it's _still_ wayyy too expensive.

>> * 833mhz S5PC100 + 256mb DDR2 RAM: $23.  good!  tolerable.
>
> Do you reay mean, you get the MCU with MEM for 23 US$?  I realy can not
> believe it.

 http://www.ebv.com/en/products/categories/details/product/s5pc100.html

 go to the "price" tab, you see it's $14.50 or so for 1k.  roughly $8
(guess) for 256mb DDR2, that's $23 or so.

>> * 1ghz S5PV210 + 256mb DDR2 RAM: guesses - $32?  very good!  needs
>> confirmation though.
>>
>> i'm _guessing_ that the qualcomm snapdragon 1ghz and the 1ghz S5PV210
>> are going to be around $24 each.  add approx $8 for 256mb DDR2 RAM,
>> you have a price around $32.
>
> Do they have an Iage-Interface?

 no idea.

> The OMAP 3530 has one and this interface make the µC expensive

 that and the fact that it's a whopping great bit of silicon, double
the size of anything else, thanks to the DSP.

>> michelle knows some prices for 1.2ghz Marvell Sheeva CPUs (i believe)
>> and also maybe for the armada marvells.
>
> As already mentioned, it has no TFT RGB interface.

 ohh, bugger, yes - damn.  scratch that one.  forgot about that.

> Avnet-Memec/Marvel told me, better to use one of the Armada series where
> I have a range from 600 to 2000MHz and if I realy want to use a  SO-Dimm
> based system, the PCB can made compatibel to fit ANY Armada's.

 _excellent_.  what's the volume pricing on those?  1k, 10k, will they
tell you?  and what power consumption?

> ...but I do not suggest a 600MHz µC.  So if OMAP 3530 then a 720MHz.

 the OMAP3530 is just far too expensive - i put it in for illustrative
purposes only.


> Marvel is currently powering the Armada Series (I read it in there news)
> and ongoing to build there own Netbook based on it.

 good!  we can stop all this discussion and just go buy it! :)

 ... of course, they will price it at $500 like the IBM Skylight, so
that won't happen _but_, the thought will be there...