Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable?

[Timothy Miller]

Simon Braunschmidt wrote:

> > If you're selling a $5000 workstation, you might be willing to pay 
> > $300 for a graphics card that saves you thousands in customer support 
> > calls that don't have to happen.
>
> Is $300 with 3D in the class of geforce2/ati_r200?


Well, that's a different story.  If the plan changes so that we decide 
to produce a high-end card, then we can do an ASIC, giving us more chip 
area and faster clock speeds.

The problem is that a $300 card isn't a card "for the masses".  My 
example there is only plausible for those cases where lots of money is 
already being spent.

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