<uhhimhere>
would you think of getting a chinese manufacturer to implement them on SoCs to lower the price and sell the boxes at higher volume
<sb0>
not for this reason, but cheap ASICs sound interesting. do you know any manufacturer?
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<uhhimhere>
well if there is no demand on the boxes there wont be a market for the ASICs
<uhhimhere>
unless you find another application for the SoC
<uhhimhere>
you are in HK, im pretty sure theres a bunch of contacts in the phonebook; but its good to know youre interested
<uhhimhere>
so is it possible to run phoronix's test suite on the box
<sb0>
it'd take a few years of work and hundreds of k€ to get it to run at acceptable speeds, only so that some cheap bastard can point out that the latest raspberry pi is 20% faster. no, thanks.
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<uhhimhere>
well its just to put the machine out there thats all
<uhhimhere>
not to compete or anything
<uhhimhere>
sooner or later someone else will come and pick it up and make some improvements
<uhhimhere>
etc etc
<uhhimhere>
plus you dont have to pay licensing and royalties for your SoC do you
<uhhimhere>
unlike MIPS/ARM
<uhhimhere>
ok well
<uhhimhere>
good luck hope to see the box in affordable form in the future and hope that some kind of open SoC (non fpga) comes out of it
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[artiq] sbourdeauducq pushed 3 new commits to master: http://git.io/Di1xhw
<GitHub81>
artiq/master 4160d24 Sebastien Bourdeauducq: management/sync_struct: export process_mod function