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OpenSPARC suffers from the same problem as most of the other alternate chips: I cannot buy a motherboard for a PC case and start going. Dev boards are cool but
by protomyth 10y ago
OpenSPARC suffers from the same problem as most of the other alternate chips: I cannot buy a motherboard for a PC case and start going. Dev boards are cool but $1,000 motherboards[1] is not going to fly. When these alternate architectures get to the point I can buy a motherboard at a $500 or below price, I'll believe they are golden.
I really want it to succeed, but PowerPC and POWER have left their scars.
1) Talos™ Mainboard for $3,700 for a POWER 8
- nickpsecurity 10y agoThe reason those boards you buy are cheap is theres a boatload of people who pay for them. Need quite a bit of volume to get a custom, high-performance ASIC and board down to a few hundred. The problem is on the demand side. The suppliers would have to come up with millions of dollars for development and advertising then risk losing most of it. Most that do go bankrupt or get acquired after they fail (esp in FPGA or accelerator space).