Maybe an Open GPU

[h3z]

This might be nice.

http://hackaday.com/2013/10/11/an-open-source-gpu/

 

[Deleted member 13721]

How are they going to mass produce it, assuming they manage to get the money to develop just the chip? Building a chip foundry is expensive, no?:\

 

[h3z]

They used to make the Number Nine Graphics Card.

 

[ColdfireMC]

How are they going to mass produce it, assuming they manage to get the money to develop just the chip? Building a chip foundry is expensive, no?:\

FPGA, expensive for buyers, cheap for developers.


looks good, but it would be a very-very-very basic gpu

 

[Whattteva]

FPGA's are too expensive to be mass produced. They're great for developers for quick prototyping of a solution, but you will never find an equally powerful FPGA-based GPU solution for as cheap as you can get them for desktops.

How are they going to mass produce it, assuming they manage to get the money to develop just the chip? Building a chip foundry is expensive, no?

FPGA's are off-the-shelf items produced by Xilinx and Altera (there may be other companies, but those are the main ones).

 

[ColdfireMC]

FPGA's are too expensive to be mass produced. They're great for developers for quick prototyping of a solution, but you will never find an equally powerful FPGA-based GPU solution for as cheap as you can get them for desktops.

FPGA's are off-the-shelf items produced by Xilinx and Altera (there may be other companies, but those are the main ones).

a nice extension to this proyect would be a defititive IC.