[Arm-netbook] Allwinner outsells Intel

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 07:40:50AM +0000, joem wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 13:29 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> > > You are going somewhere I do not wish to follow - HPC - its a completely
> > > different subject.
> > > 
> > > Lots of IO port pins are available, and first target for me at least
> > > is simple low cost assembly of images in a conveyor to replace
> > > proprietary graphics cards. So if product has to play video and do some
> > > simple game like functions, then copy and paste two CPUs, interconnect
> > > some IO pins to compose images and transfer images between CPUs to
> > > destination CPU that has the LCD. At $20 per A10 chip + 1GB RAM +
> > > components, no one batter an eye lid if the solution works.
> > 
> > DO it. Show me a Kicad file. You still need to move all that image
> > data to a display. That actually starts to look like a HPC problem.
> > (I started https://bitbucket.org/dahozer/infiniband-fpga, for HPC,
> > but it might work for collecting all those images in the way you
> > are talking about above)
> 
> The evolution of ideas (in parallel with other on going projects) is as
> follows:
> 
> The first attempt was the dual CPU ARM board
> http://www.gplsquared.com/SoM1/SoM1.html

Very cool... maybe you can help me with another project... Take the 
BDDgroupllc Wizard SoM (on an sodimm), and add the Open Energy Monitor
http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/sites/default/files/emonTx_V1.4_sch.png

As for your other comments (in other emails) about the graphics IP patent
trolls, have a look at the OpenShader project:
http://lists.duskglow.com/pipermail/open-graphics/2013-April/013090.html