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I'd like to know that they consider to be sufficient interest to justify a production run. This is a really niche project, and $3000 seems quite low for a one-o
by throwaway7767 11y ago
I'd like to know that they consider to be sufficient interest to justify a production run. This is a really niche project, and $3000 seems quite low for a one-off motherboard made in a couple of hundred units.
Hopefully these guys have worked out the math, I've just noticed that most people, especially software people, seriously underestimate the cost of producing hardware in small quantities.
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- gh02t 11y agoI think there might be enough interest in HPC. A few of the big upcoming supercomputing projects are going to be based on POWER8. I'd guess a decent number of people buying them are HPC types that want to start experimenting with porting and tuning for those upcoming systems. I'm just speculating, but I hope they already had enough demand to justify what is definitely a niche product.
- ryao 11y agoThe number is 1500. I know because I have been talking to them about this since last year.
- throwaway7767 11y agoThanks, that sounds a lot more realistic than what I had in mind. Hopefully they'll get enough interested people to commit, it'd be great to have a choice in workstation architecture again.