Kickstarter: Open Source Graphics Processor (GPU)

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 12.10.2013 um 19:23 schrieb Ian Stirling:

> 
> On 10/12/2013 05:43 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> The main fear I have is that there is not enough funding because nobody can really use it in daily work without investing another lots of money (to integrate the FPGA with something). BR, Nikolaus
> 
> Speaking in generalities - FPGAs use lots more power for a given task than dedicated hardware.
> They are also a lot more expensive.
> This is unlikely to be $400K investment, then $20 per chip.
> More like 400K investment leading to something that works on a $1000 FPGA, and uses several times the
> power of a comparable device.
> 
> Is this interesting - in principle - yes - combined with an ARM licence, it could lead to a moderately low risk CPU, if someone were willing to put up the several-many million to make a CPU with it on die.
> 
> Off-die GPUs are an utter non-starter for mobile devices.


Has anyone experience with the Zynq-7000? It has dual Cortex A9 with VFP/Neon - but apparently lacks a GPU...
Such a combination could be comparable with OMAP3/4 in computation power.

Maybe not the best one for a handheld mobile device, but for a tablet.

-- hns