The $50 7" tablet stampede
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The $50 7" tablet stampede for Android running on Linux is threatening/has started to obliterate all other products.
OMG! :-(
Basically Far East makers are unlikely to give you support for any other competing products white they are snowed under with $50 7" tablet demand.
2013 may kill a lot of projects and the fallout may not be pleasant for anybody. Look to EU for SoCs if you want to keep projects alive.
The EU has to kick start OLED production if they really really want to be in the manufacturing game of the future and not be shut out like this from Far East developments.
Opencores
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may become another source for alternative SoCs that can be built without any proprietary hardware. This could solve both the SoC support problem and open graphics accelerator problem for the long run if enough time and money got invested into its various projects.Another project where thousands of developers are coming together to solve the completely open source SoC problem:
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