On 08/04/2011 12:44, V G wrote:
> Whoah. Why? As in, what features/performance/whatever do you get for a $2=
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> 000 chip?

Much of the price is simply because they are the cutting edge (have a=20
look what a 250K gate FPGA cost say, 5 years ago) in a few years=20
(provided things carry on approximating Moore's law) they will be=20
available for $50 and there will be another chip 10 times as large again.
Apart from sheer size (>10M gates) they will have stuff like the=20
latest/fastest transceivers, onboard ARM/DSP/analogue hardware, loads=20
and loads of RAM, and so on.
The cutting edge is a very expensive place to be.. :-)



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