Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] Crazy idea: Design open-source graphics chip | From | Torrey Hoffman <> | Date | Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:06:42 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 08:13, Timothy Miller wrote:
> We cannot compete with Nvidia or ATI or 3Dlabs or Matrox or even S3. > > The real question we have to ask ourselves is, what would be the market > demand for a graphics card that is 3 generations behind the state of the > art and over-priced, the only advantage being that it's a 100% open > architecture?
I think I can do better than that by buying two-generation-behind cards off EBay.
The older Matrox, ATI, etc. cards have complete driver documentation (AFAIK) or at least are very well supported by completely open Linux / XFree86 drivers.
You can get a Matrox Millenium G400 on EBay right now for under $20. Or an ATI 7500 for under $30.
So, as cool as an open-source graphics chip would be, I think if you can't manufacture a complete AGP card with your new chip for less than $30, and better performance than those parts... don't bother.
-- Torrey Hoffman <thoffman@arnor.net>
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