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Cheaper in reels though ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

John Larkin wrote on 1/4/2018 7:47 PM:

I think the issue is not so much how, but why? Who really needs 5 million logic cells and 10 MB of on chip RAM? I bet they only sell a few of these... well, by few I mean a few thousand tops. That would be enough to pay for the mask sets anyway. What do you think Digikey's cut is?

It's not quite the depression era guy on the street corner selling apples for $10,000. "I only gotta sell ONE!"

Reel of 3000, 230 million dollars, less a modest quantity discount.

Worth hijacking a truck or maybe a 747 for.

(Armed people in Silicon Valley used to hold up trucks full of Pentium chips.)

The government loves such things. The other "big" market for large FPGAs is the hardware logic emulation business. They build emulators to simulate entire CPUs.

A "Peanuts" cartoon fifty something years ago had Lucy selling lemonade for $5/glass. Linus told her that she wasn't going to sell many glasses at that price. She replied, "At that price, I don't HAVE to sell many glasses.".

EUR ?70.380

I assume that this is the continental style, i.e. 70 thousand, three hundred and eighty euro. Cheap at twice the price!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I was at a trade show maybe 8 years ago, and a guy had a booth selling logic emulators. Each board had I think 12 FPGAs that cost $3K each, and you could pack a lot of boards into one crate.

I still can't believe that nothing has ever crashed, exploded, or sailed past Mars at 90,000 miles^Wkilometers/hour due to this stupidity...

-- john, KE5FX

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its motives questioned.

Probably find a few in the JSF plane :)

Did a bit of work on the Laser guidance bits...

Heh, and I thought that our Virtex7 board for $15k was expensive...

Best regards, Piotr

Am 05.01.2018 um 10:44 schrieb David Eather:

Gerhard

Nah, Joerg wouldn't use a 70-euro part unless you threatened to dump out all the beer in his basement. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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That's 'come directly' as in 'is projected at high velocity'...

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Joerg is lot more pragmatic than that. He'd look hard for a cheaper way of doing the job, but if a 70 euro part formed part of the cheapest solution, he'd buy it, just like any other sensible engineer.

Logic Emulation DOD (whatever) BitCoin mining

scritto:

no more. GPU are much better for this now.

Bye Jack

I'd think one could build a couple of thousand parallel mining machines in one of those FPGAs.

yeah, but why? miners have been using ASICs for several years, because FPGAs cost too much to run.