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The idea +</I>>><i>  is to have an OGP GPU in firmware in FPGA. In terms of the power budget, +</I>>><i>  it seems to work relatively sanely considering what it is, and it is as +</I>>><i>  ideal as it gets as far as openness and flexibility goes. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i>  I just thought it's worthy of a mention. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It does seem outlandish, but it is kind of cool. Is it going to give enough +</I>><i> 3d speed? The next gen tegra is supposed to have a 24 core GPU. +</I> + if nvidia have a published announcement of their plans to release a +fully free-software-compliant 3D driver to match the proprietary +hardware, then that would be brilliant news [about their next gen +GPU]. + + about the zynq idea: it actually doesn't matter if it's "enough". +the very fact that free software developers - and people who want to +be free software developers - around the world could even _remotely_ +consider buying one of these for an affordable price instead of $750 +for the present OGP card means that more people can at least begin to +try to address the unbelievably wide and very discouraging gap between +us and proprietary 3D hardware. + + the NREs on producing a set of masks are _only_ $250,000 if you are a +taiwanese company asking TSMC, but for everyone else they're at least +$2 million. the development costs if you use off-the-shelf tools +before you even _get_ to the point where you can ask a fab to produce +those masks spiral out of control (Mentor Graphics charges something +like $250,000 per month or maybe per week per user; NREs for +peripheral hard macros can be $50k to $100k each etc. etc.), taking +the total development costs in many cases to well above $USD 30 +million. + + and that's excluding all that "proprietary software" which of course +is utterly useless without the corresponding hardware but, because of +USA Accountancy Rules, where "IP" can be added to the books to +increase the value of a company, there's a strong financial +disincentive to consider just "givvin it aww away 4 fwee". + + and here we are with a CPU which could well be around the $25 - $30 +mark in large enough volumes, presented with the possibility to say +"**** u all, you proprietary GPU companies and your greed, fear, +patent warfare and lack of willingness to collaborate and cooperate". + +ok maybe not those exact words but you know what i mean :) + +l. +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007581.html">[Mageia-dev] ARM 3D support was Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007583.html">[Mageia-dev] ARM 3D support was Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7582">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7582">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7582">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7582">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |