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Re: [openrisc] Re: Mining, Equipment
This is a moot argument anyway. The amount of precious metals used in gate devices is not enough to significantly do anything to the metals markets one way or another. You'd need all the fab plants in the world working 24 hours a day for a few years to make a noticable difference in the price of gold.
--- Andreas Bombe <bombe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
>List ate my email - this is a resend.
>
>On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:18:28AM +0100, test1@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Hi Another possible source of fund / financial support:
>>
>> 1. Mining companies: they produce gold, silver, copper and other
>> materials used on CPU. If OpenRISC is succesful and the demand for the
>> product increased, perhaps this will bring increasing demand for
>> various metal. The mining companies are large scale companies: Placer
>> Dome, BHP (Australia), Normandy, South African, Canadian companies
>> etc.
>
>OpenRISC can not create a market. There won't be millions of chips sold
>every month just because OR is cool. Embedded processors are everywhere
>already, they are cheap and easily available.
>
>OR can only hope to get a share in a segment of that market
>(embedded/custom CPU cores, SoC) at the expense of competitors. It is
>just a CPU, after all. If you need one, you would already use one, if
>you don't, nothing changes.
>
>It's like saying in 1992 that if Linux is successful, computer sales
>will rise significantly.
>
>Mining companies don't care if their material is used for 8051, ARM or
>OpenRISC.
>
>> 2. Companies that sell IC making equipment: If OpenRISC is succesful,
>> the demand for IC making equipment will increase significantly.
>
>Same as above.
>
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