Re: XMOS XC-1 kits are ****pping

Leon wrote:
> Not if you have four 400 MIPS cores on the chip, each with 64 bits of
> I/O, 64k of RAM, with 3.2 Gbit/s comms links between cores and 32
> threads per core, with switching between threads in one clock.

That's somewhat more on-chip resources and higher performance than we
had at Ubicom, but it's also trying to do commensurately more
sophisticated and higher performance functions in the software, so I
don't expect it to actually work out any better than things did for
Ubicom.

> If the
> software is free, it is a very cost-effective solution, especially as
> the chips will be very cheap.

Software is NEVER free, even when someone is giving it away.  You'll
pay for it one way or another.

Eric