On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@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 Now that thing is probably outdated for a reasonable windows experience.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.