[Arm-netbook] "smarter" phone

[Vladimir Pantelic]

luke.leighton wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
>>
>>> So, how many of you will put down pre-orders for:
>>> 1) full-open software fairphone (pre-rooted, no blobs, full function)
>>> 2) open-source PCB fairphone
>>> 3) phone with open source software, PCB, AND silicon layout
>>>
>>> Number 2 could almost be done today.
>>>
>>> If there were 100,000 down-payments of $5USD for number 3, I would start
>>> negotiations with fabs for (3) and we'd probably have silicon in about
>>> 3-5 years.
>>
>>
>> you can make a new chip for just $500k?
>
>   in 90nm, and if you can guarantee it will work so that you don't need
> massive validation costs, then yes you can.

ah, easy then :)