[Arm-netbook] ST Nova™ A9500

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "lkcl" == lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> writes:

 lkcl> ok, brief analysis: no RGB/TTL (only digital MIPI) but there are 2
 lkcl> MIPIs.  conversion to HDMI is done through a companion chip called
 lkcl> AV8100.  the other one down-conversion to RGB/TTL i don't know.
 lkcl> ethernet is on a 16-bit General-Purpose bus - an IC called a
 lkcl> LAN9221i-ABZJ.  there's no SATA.

 lkcl> so it's all down to pricing.  they've paid linaro's $USD 1m per year
 lkcl> fees, so that has to be covered somehow.  bari, if you're speaking to
 lkcl> avnet (or whomever) could you ask about those two ICs as well (AV8100
 lkcl> and LAN9221-iABZJ).  if we have 1k and 50k volume pricing we'll have a
 lkcl> clear idea of whether they have head-in-clouds or realistic numbers.

The SMSC 10/100 lan92xx are afaik ~$5 in volume.

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard