[Arm-netbook] ST Nova™ A9500

[Vladimir Pantelic]

lkcl luke wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Peter Korsgaard<jacmet at sunsite.dk>  wrote:
>
>>    >  so it's all down to pricing.  they've paid linaro's $USD 1m per year
>>    >  fees, so that has to be covered somehow.  bari, if you're speaking to
>>    >  avnet (or whomever) could you ask about those two ICs as well (AV8100
>>    >  and LAN9221-iABZJ).  if we have 1k and 50k volume pricing we'll have a
>>    >  clear idea of whether they have head-in-clouds or realistic numbers.
>>
>>  The SMSC 10/100 lan92xx are afaik ~$5 in volume.
>
>   oo, ouch.  so, compared to the allwinner (e.g. the A12), the cost of
> supplying the ethernet chip alone is the same cost as the entire
> processor.

most phones won't have an ethernet chip.... If this is on a dev board, the
price is almost irrelevant...