[Arm-netbook] NuSmartTM 2816

[lkcl luke]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 12:05 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
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>> * TI's OMAP3503 (and one other in that series, 3525 or something)
>> * AM Sitara CPUs 335x all have the option of non-PowerVR
>>
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>> and a 1121-pin BGA package, that's.... that's a bitch. yields will not
>> be particularly good [each of the pins is hammer-welded to the silicon
>> wafer: the BGA pads are on a multi-layer PCB, themselves.  you hit the
>> wafer 1121 times with a hammer to get it to stick to the pins-board,
>> it doesn't do it much good...]
>>
>>
> Even if I made them easy to assemble what would we really gain by the
> having the Sitara or other omap parts on an EOMA68 card?

 by way of mass-volume price-competitive feature-competitive products?
absolutely nothing: such sitara and other OMAP parts are neither
price-competitive to other mass-volume parts nor feature-competitive.
the missing functionality on many of these parts requires additional
ICs to make up things like HDMI, SATA etc.

 by way of experimental boards, R&D boards and low-cost boards and
compatible-with-beagleboard and
compatible-with-a-lot-of-preexisting-software: quite a lot.

 l.