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| From | rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. |
| Date | 2012-10-05 15:43 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <k4nd99$uh9$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 10/4/2012 8:41 PM, vandys@vsta.org wrote: > rickman<gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote: >> ... with the current selling >> price of the GA144, I don't see it being suited to high volume markets >> except perhaps an extremely small niche. > > I'm certainly not arguing the case for the current chip. But the tiny dab of > silicon implied by their architecture would be almost in the noise for any > current production CPU chip; their technology is clearly compatible with low > cost and low power. The real question seems to be whether its new software > model can gain traction in any actual product. If you think their chip is suitable for low cost applications, you have not looked at what it takes to build a board using this device. There are any number of MCUs and FPGAs available that have looked at the full system which they would be used in and incorporated as many components internally as possible. The GA144 seems to have been designed thinking that the system should be adapted to making the GA144 as simple as possible. As I said in my other posts, this part requires some $10 or more of supporting components for a real design. Compare that to a MCU under $4 that has nearly everything needed on one chip. The irony is that it would be so easy to add capability that would make this a much better device. I don't know why they don't think it is useful or needed. The software issues are on top of the hardware issues and don't really help things much. Rick
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Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) "B.Person" <bruce.person@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 07:16 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 10:44 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 10:45 -0700
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Jecel <jecel@merlintec.com> - 2012-09-28 11:39 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-28 11:44 -0700
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-29 12:13 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-09-29 23:13 +0200
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-29 17:30 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-09-29 17:59 -1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2012-09-30 13:50 +0000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-10-02 23:53 +1000
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-03 07:41 -1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. vandys@vsta.org - 2012-10-03 18:06 +0000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-03 20:22 +0200
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-04 08:39 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-04 07:51 -1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-04 14:05 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-04 09:26 -1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-04 19:23 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. vandys@vsta.org - 2012-10-05 00:41 +0000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-05 15:43 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. vandys@vsta.org - 2012-10-05 21:14 +0000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-07 17:58 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-10-04 13:40 +1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-03 21:34 -1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2012-10-04 09:49 +0000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-10-10 00:10 +1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-09 16:42 +0200
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 14:01 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-09 11:43 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-09 09:02 -1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 15:34 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-09 09:53 -1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 16:06 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-09 17:00 -1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-10 20:54 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-11 19:26 -1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-12 23:52 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-13 07:56 -1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-13 15:06 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-10 01:29 +0200
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 15:31 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-09 14:14 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-09 21:37 +0200
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-09 15:26 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-10 02:21 +0200
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-09 19:40 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cmm> - 2012-10-04 17:07 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cmm> - 2012-09-29 22:12 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-09-29 18:38 -1000
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-29 23:38 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Jecel <jecel@merlintec.com> - 2012-09-30 11:47 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 00:19 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-02 16:06 +0200
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cmm> - 2012-10-01 02:31 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-01 01:27 -0700
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-01 16:57 +0200
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cmm> - 2012-10-02 16:51 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-03 02:48 +0200
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cmm> - 2012-10-04 17:47 -0400
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-10-05 00:39 +0200
Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cmm> - 2012-10-06 18:47 -0400
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cmm> - 2012-10-01 02:26 -0400
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-08 16:40 -0400
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2012-10-09 09:59 +0000
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 17:11 -0400
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-09 20:46 -0400
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-13 00:01 -0400
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-14 17:36 -0400
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Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) "B.Person" <bruce.person@gmail.com> - 2012-10-27 08:54 -0700
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