[Arm-netbook] New Eoma68 housing idea

[Bill Kontos]

Is that the master plan you with Allwinner you mentioned somewhere else ?
I'm very interested with the idea. The mere idea that you managed to get a
new SoC going on on a reasonable node despite the cost intrigues me a lot.
So what about all the other ip blocks involved in the soc ? Realistically
if such a small form factor wants to be successful it needs to have 3d.

2017-02-17 18:46 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Bill Kontos <vkontogpls at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Did you see the amount of money they raised ? They are sitting at over
> 900k$
> > out of 200k$ needed originally. There is an insane market for these
> devices
> > that I totally didn't expect. I know their older product which was more
> of a
> > retro gaming/console thing with analog controllers was hugely successful
> in
> > S. Korea.  Now that thing is probably outdated for a reasonable windows
> > experience. I can easily see this becoming a major success with the added
> > bonus of upgradability. I really think this could work very well to the
> > benefit of the standard. Also given that for freedom reasons we are stuck
> > with older and cheaper SoCs that do not support 3d via f/oss drivers it
> also
> > makes more sense to make a housing for a market that also has lower power
> > expectations.
>
>  well, thanks to some questioning last month we worked out a way to
> increase (negotiate) power up to 10W, and i am working on a proposal /
> concept to get an 8-core 64-bit RISC-V SoC produced.
>
>  we cannot rely on the incumbent SoC manufacturers to operate in an
> ethical framework: they just don't understand the concept and it's not
> important for them.  they take the easy way out because that's *more
> profitable*.
>
>  i think they're going to get a bit of a shock when the world's first
> 8-core RISC-V processor comes out, regardless of who makes it.
>
> l.
>
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