[Arm-netbook] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

[Baybal Ni]

Pricing:

Shitty Colour TFT LCD 10" from flea market $30-40
SoC of feature range that we are targeting - $25-35 in quantities of 100k+
Plentiful of memory and flash - $15
PCB work in PRC - $5
SMT components for PM - $2
Minor ICs - $10 in quantities of 100k+
Casing by third party company - $10 in quantities of 100k+
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$107

Assembly on 3rd tier OEM with all fancyfications and QA- $30-40
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$145

This is the price if we will simply drop on some random OEM with small
quantity order. With bigger quantities, cost might be cut almost
twice.

On 29 August 2011 09:45, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
>
>> The key point isn't the cost, though. The point is that an ARM laptop
>> can be made thinner, lighter and with much, much better battery life
>> than an equivalent x86 one.
>
>  people who've opened up toshiba AC100s have found them to be mostly
> full of air.
>
>> The problem you get into with bigger screens
>> is power consumption - if you use an ARM CPU, the TFT screen is going to
>> be the biggest single power drain which will even out the playing field
>> against x86 at least until large OLED or PixelQi screens become available.
>
>  9in: the OLPC XO 1.75 hardware team budgeted i believe 1 watt or less (!)
>
>  10in: typically 2.5 watts, if you're lucky.  maybe 3.
>
>  11in: 4 to 5.
>
>  it gets hairy after that.  after all, behind the distribution of
> light, it's a square-law.  duh.
>
>  l.
>
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