bloodline wrote:
It's fine, but it's not a commercial idea. It's a hobby idea, it's not $20 ASICs and $100 dev boards... it is these claims that irritate me.
They are not ambitious claims, they are false claims! and they make a joke out of the Amiga and the NATAMI project.
Do you have a problem reading or do lie on purpose?The Natami team NEVER promised, that we will sell the Chip for $20 !
We clearly stated that our long term goal is to develop the HDL code for SuperAGA Chipset and including a CPU, which altogether could be made into an ASIC.
This Asic would then be a AMIGA in a single chip.
The ramp up cost for a Altera Hardcopy are 250,000 quit.
A piece price for a hardcopy ASIC of < $20 is a correct statement.
We never claimed that we have the money to invest.
What we said is that we want to bring the chip design
to functional state that this could be done.
Our goal obviously is to find people interested to make new inexpensive classic Amigas happen again.
I find it rather unfair of you to misquote us here,
and to call us liers based on your misunderstanding of the whole.
Gunnar
