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Seems like a bad idea to price your dev kit this high. If I were in AMD's position, I'd heavily subsidize the dev kits -- maybe $500-1000 -- to try to get peop
by rdl 12y ago
Seems like a bad idea to price your dev kit this high. If I were in AMD's position, I'd heavily subsidize the dev kits -- maybe $500-1000 -- to try to get people to build on my platform.
At $3k, it's only going to be appealing to hardware OEMs or big teams. At $500, random people within companies would buy them (i.e. me), or people might get them for personal projects.
The idea of something with working TrustZones (vs. the abortion which is TCG/TPM) is intriguing, on top of ARM power savings.
- mcpherrinm 12y agoYou don't want a devkit like this to be popular. These surely aren't ramped up on a full production line, more likely being made in prototype houses that can't handle the volume, and have extensive testing of each unit. You need to get the OEMs and big teams on board first, and can get the developer-centric experimental products out later.