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This isn't necessarily a death knell. If Microsoft wanted to continue with the product, they can do what is called a "lifetime buy" where they buy up enough chi
by blackguardx 9y ago
This isn't necessarily a death knell. If Microsoft wanted to continue with the product, they can do what is called a "lifetime buy" where they buy up enough chips to carry them until their next iteration with a different CPU.
This is especially common in industrial electronics where volume is lower and product life is longer. Some lifetime buys can cover production builds for over ten years or more.
- sremani 9y agoIs it possible that Microsoft might have HL-2.0 which perhaps does not rely on this Chip?
- MichaelGG 9y agoTFA suggests Microsoft initiated this EOL. Gonna guess that MS is way ahead of things here and is quite fine.
- tw04 9y agoIt literally says that in the article. This is in no way a death knell. >The next-generation Microsoft HoloLens will be different compared to the existing augmented reality platform, Microsoft revealed recently. While the device will run Windows 10 and will be equipped with an HPU, it will also feature an AI co-processor integrated into the latter that will use neural networks to enable object and voice recognition skills without the need for an Internet connection. The HPU 2.0 with the programmable AI co-processor will be a self-sufficient device that will run on battery power of the next HoloLens (hence, its power consumption will not be too high). The HPU 2.0 and the AI co-processor were designed entirely in-house and therefore are tailored for usage model of the HoloLens.
- WorldMaker 9y agoI also would not be surprised, given what I perceived to be Microsoft's roundabout passive aggressive PR complaints about the Atom family, if Microsoft might make a play for the HoloLens 2.0 to run on ARM instead of x86.