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Two million dollars to design an open-source GPU on Kickstarter? Seems like an obviously great idea, assuming that the people behind it are competent enough GPU
by leoc 14y ago
Two million dollars to design an open-source GPU on Kickstarter? Seems like an obviously great idea, assuming that the people behind it are competent enough GPU design, and that a mere $2m is actually enough. And that the project wouldn't be patent-litigated into the ground, of course.
- neolefty 14y agoHe said 2M from each of the people who complained ...
- leoc 14y agoI don't think that was was what he meant; what he said ("I want $2m from all the people who've criticised me") certainly doesn't have to be interpreted that way.
- bradfa 14y ago$2 million isn't enough to design a reasonable performing GPU that can be sold at low cost. Just the salaries for the engineering staff and prototype builds will cost in excess of that. A more realistic goal would be to get $2 million in a Kickstarter and pay a bunch of engineers to reverse engineer the drivers needed to drive an existing high quality SoC GPU. That way we can use existing silicon but have open source drivers. Open source graphics drivers are something that's very hard to find in the ARM SoC world today.