few Pictures... (no one interested though...)

I wish i could talk more about BB's new hardware, but i cant. There would be to much speculation. Nobody outside BB knows all the details about their hardware and i rather stay with hard evidence.

But don´t get me wrong. I still think that this was BB´s most interesting seminar. Their previous seminars have mostly been related to software simulations, but in this, they showed real hardware. I have never think that BB is just an other hype company that just hypes their "will never be on the market"-technigues.

Believe me or not, but some people actually thought the same about companies like Intel, Nokia, NVIDIA, Sony etc. Maby BB wont ever make it, but if they will. Then i will be here to say: I TOLD YOU SO

Im sorry about all the typos.. But it´s late and i need to get some sleep!

 

I thought someone mentioned we'd get a card from Bitboys. You know, it'd be a "surprise" or something like that.

 

A christmas card ? OK, ok, lame I know but somehow I could not resist

For the consumer its always better to have more companies join the party... wouldn't mind finally seeing how good/bad embedded memory is for the PC Platform.

Btw as a moderator I am amazed by your choice of user name... talk about making sure that its not yet taken

K~

 

What is the purpose of the Altera chip please ?

 

The altera chip is an FPGA, generally used in few cases:

-one off systems(small quantities), where you cannot bear the expense of making an ASIC
-development uses
-need for programmable logic

A lot of times they're used for glue logic (i.e. tieing a HD to your embedded processor, or abstracting an SDRAM interface to an SRAM interface), but this one appears to hold the entire GPU.

An FPGA of this size is really expensive ($1000+)

 

Prototyping, allows you to make lots of changes and try different things. Its like having a chip that you can change all the time without any costs.

There is a limit on size and complexity for this kind of prototyping so don't expect to do this for something with the complexity of NV30

K-

 

Thanks Kristof, btw when will we be able to buy this thing?

 

They are also used on cable modem termination systems. Ever see a single board with about 8(IIRC) Altera Apex BGA's along with some Altera Flex chips?

 

Actually it was first in Pyramid 3D already, but the guys were the same.

 

Good question... err... for marketing people since I have no idea

 

Well. if that thought is anywhere close the truth, we can just forget the PC card. I mean, a company of this size can't keep up with big boys unless they were 100 percent committed to have the card ready asap? Unless they are like two years ahead of everybody else (not very likely).

 

Re: interesting facts

Conversely, therefore, if I can afford to buy even a 1 bit SRAM (and I have done better than that) I can therefore buy more than all of the DRAM in the universe.... I can retire now

 

Nah Nappe1 there won't be a card out this year (PC) that is a fact.

Nice pics and info

32534 views seems that kinda proofs we where always right and they now acknowledging our BB info.

Hercules rulez great company........ if u dunno why u blind

 

this thread was mentionned in some slashdot article about bitboys, it should explain the 30000+ views.

(i didn't not find mention of this fact in the thread, sorry if it was well-known and i'm just telling the evidence..)

 

Re: interesting facts

How would having all the DRAM in the universe allow you to retire? Should I be storing away old DIMMs to speed that day along(my retirement, not yours)?

 

Re: interesting facts

 

That one with the LCD is just a PSoC. Programmable System on Chip available from http://www.altera.com. data sheet at http://www.altera.com/literature/ds/ds_apex20kc.pdf I didn't read this whole thread, hopefully someone else found this info as well......

Still cool though.

As for the other one it almost looks like a re-screened Altera PSoC as well. they may have just rubbed the Altera lettering off and got Bitboys put on, hell Altera will even do that for you at a price.

 

51'000 views and counting.

I guess that is what happens when you get /.'ed

 

Re: interesting facts

By monopolistic control of the market price. Of course I failed to allow for the fact that, apparently, "SRAM is infinitely faster than DRAM" yet I know SRAM is of finite speed, which surely means the DRAMs aren't going to be of much use